作为现代性的后果,上帝的权威受到挑战,以上帝为核心的传统秩序,与以之为象征的人与世界的本质联系都面临严重危机。于是,以人为方式为破碎的世界重建秩序并达成自我实现就成为一种既无奈又狂妄的做法。艾丽丝.默多克在其代表作《大海啊,大海》中,以新艺术家小说的形式对这一西方现代社会中普遍做法的合理性进行了思考。小说通过对主人公查尔斯自我叙述的处理,展现了他重建人为秩序和自我实现的努力,同时,也揭示了查尔斯试图借助不可靠叙述来达成自我实现的悖谬性,并对解决这一问题的方法进行了探讨。 As a consequence of modernity, God’s authority is challenged. The traditional God-centered system is in serious crisis with its essential human-world relationship. Thus, to rebuild order and achieve self-realization in a man-made way for the broken world has become a helpless and arrogant approach. Alice Murdoch, in his masterpiece “The Sea, the Sea,” contemplates the legitimacy of this universal practice in modern Western societies in the form of novels by new artists. Through the treatment of the protagonist Charles’s self-narration, the novel shows his efforts to rebuild man’s order and self-actualization. At the same time, he also reveals that Charles tried to reach a self-actualization absurdity by means of unreliable narratives. He also made a solution to this problem Exploring.