戈尔丁的小说《自由坠落》以第一人称叙述者回忆往事的形式重组叙事时间，建立起事件之间的因果链，使小说的叙事进程成为“发现”的过程，从而揭示20世纪信仰失落和“自由坠落”之间的关联；小说以叙述者个体的精神困境讽喻现代人缺乏精神支柱的生存现状，对20世纪英国社会精神状况作出了独特的诠释，同时也高度概括性地展现了西方社会精神探险的历程。%In Free Fall,William Golding,by rearranging narrative time in the form of the first person narrator’s recollection of his past,reveals the causal link between events.This novel,in turn,becomes a jour-ney of discovery, leading to an understanding of the connection between loss of faith in the contemporary world and “free fall”. Through an exploration of the narrator’s spiritual malady that mirrors the spiritual di-lemma of the modern man,the novel provides a unique comment on the spiritual status quo of the twentieth century British society and a summary of the spiritual history of the West.
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