借年老的动物学家夫妇在野外被残忍谋杀事件,小说《死》对死亡和尸体腐烂过程进行了超乎寻常的细致描写,揭开了人类肉体死亡的神秘、恐怖面纱。同时,透过小说中死亡事件所展现的人际关系,作家克雷斯揭露了现代文明社会的人性之殇。借助神秘自然主义,克雷斯暗示人性之殇可导致肉体死亡。然而,肉体死亡也可终结人性之殇,带来人性和肉体的“新生”。于是,肉体死亡、人性之殇和新生构成了死亡的三重含义。 Through the brutal murder of old zoologists and couples in the wild, the novel Death gives an extremely detailed description of the process of death and decay of the body, opening the mysterious and horrible veil of human physical death. At the same time, writer Kress reveals the human nature of modern civilized society through the interpersonal relationships revealed by the death events in the novel. With mysterious naturalism, Cress implies that human nature can lead to physical death. However, physical death can also end humanity and bring “new life” to humanity and body. Thus, physical death, humanity and newborn constitute the triple meaning of death.