《送给年轻寡妇们的免费水果》(2011)讲述了大屠杀幸存者滕德勒和盖泽尔的故事:滕德勒代表暴力与复仇,盖泽尔代表善意与和解。通过这篇小说,英格兰德尔对大屠杀、人性和犹太身份进行了重新思考,并提出了医治大屠杀创伤的另一种方案,从而间接地质疑了以色列奉行的国家恐怖主义及其大屠杀根基。叙述方式上,该小说显示出的仪式化特征似乎象征了以英格兰德尔为代表的当代美国犹太作家对犹太文化传统和习俗的重新认同和回归。
“Free Fruit for Young Widows” is about Tendler and Shimmy Gezer, two survivors in Holoc Gaust: while Tendler represents violence and Revenge, Gezer kindness and reconciliation. Through the story, Nathan Englander reconsiders such issues as Holocaust, humanity and Jewish identity. By proposing an alternative way to cope with Holocaust trauma, Englander interrogates, by way of insinuation, the national terrorism policy adopted by Isreal and its Holocaust based rationale. Meanwhile, the ritualistic narration of the story suggests the return of Jewish tradition and rituals manifest in contemporary American Jewish writers represented by Nathan Englander.
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