据英国《泰晤士文学增刊》1993年12月10日报道,美国著名的南方作家威廉·斯泰伦最近出版了一部新作:《泰德沃特的早晨》(A Tidewater Morning.开普版,142页)。《泰德沃特的早晨》是一部包括三篇小说的短篇小说集。这三个短篇互为联系,每篇小说的叙述者都是一个叫作保罗·怀特赫斯特的人,这个人其实就是斯泰伦在作品中也很少掩饰的他的另一个自我。这三篇小说都包含着毁灭与解脱的回忆,主人公总是受到一种突如其来的强烈情感的冲击,从而引起他对自己的内心或社会进行痛苦的审视。第一篇《爱的日子》,故事发生在1945年,在太平洋上的一艘美国军舰上,这时这位保罗是20岁的海军陆战队排长,他平日斗志 According to the British “Thames Literary Supplement,” reported on December 10, 1993, the famous American writer William Stellen recently published a new book entitled “A Tidewater Morning. Cape version, 142 page). Tedwater’s Morning is a collection of short stories that includes three novels. The three short stories are interrelated, and the narrator in each novel is a man named Paul Whitehurst, who is in fact the other ego that Stellen seldom disguises in his work. All three novels contain memories of destruction and liberation, and the protagonist is always impacted by a sudden strong emotion, which leads him to look into his own heart or society painfully. The first ”day of love," the story took place in 1945 on the Pacific in a US warship, when Paul is 20-year-old Marine Corps platoon leader, he is always fighting spirit