Graham Swift’s novel is composed in the context of history and imagination in contemporary discourse. It integrates historical imagination with reflections on significant social issues, and death narration is an important clue through the reflections. The reflections on death is aimed at a better life, and responsibility goes together with the free choice of death. The integrity of life and death, and of freedom and responsibility represents the profound reflection of Swift’s social responsibility on human’s existence.%格雷厄姆·斯威夫特的小说建构在当代历史与想象的大话语语境之中，以及对现实进行历史性的想象之中，融入了对重大的社会问题的思考，在这一思考的过程中死亡叙事成为贯穿其中的一条重要线索。作者对于死亡的思考是为了人类更好地生，而人类在对死亡进行自由选择时，责任也随之而来。生与死、自由与责任二者之间的辩证关系有机的交织在一起，由此而表现出斯威夫特作为一个具有着强烈社会责任感的作家，对于人类生存现状的深刻思索。
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