Open AccessSelf-deconstruction and Alienation―An Existential Reading of The Anatomy Lesson
Author(s) -
Yanjuan Tang
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
xue xi yu jiao yu
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2251-2802
DOI - 10.18282/l-e.v10i5.2714
Subject(s) - trilogy , existentialism , alienation , deconstruction (building) , loneliness , reading (process) , psychoanalysis , identity (music) , self , psychology , sociology , philosophy , aesthetics , epistemology , literature , art , social psychology , law , linguistics , ecology , political science , biology
The Anatomy Lesson is the third book of the “Zuckerman Trilogy” of Philip Roth. The protagonist Nathan Zuckerman,
tortured by the untraceable pain, tries to give up the identity of being a writer and illusioned to be a doctor. Basic on careful reading,
with Satre’s Existentialism and Foucault’s theory of madness, this paper tries to analyze Zuckerman’s living state, living conditions
and free choices. Zuckerman’s self-deconstruction and alienation reveals modern people’s loneliness and pain and the influence of
Existentialism on Philip Roth.