加拿大作家艾丽丝·门罗在其短篇小说集《逃离》中以细腻的笔法和片段式书写,讲述了生活在边缘的小镇女性的种种逃离。她们要么逃离家庭,要么逃离婚姻和两性关系,要么逃离越来越不令人满意的自我。然而逃离的结果要么是毁灭,要么是失望。开篇小说《逃离》中的女主人公卡拉,急欲逃离却又畏惧充满未知的未来,在逃离的途中选择回归,这种欲逃无路更让人悲哀。门罗以其对人生的深刻体验,细致入微地捕捉到人生中一个个可能逃离的偶然瞬间,凸显了命运的无常,给人启示,促人深思。 Canadian writer Alice Monroe, in her short story collection Escape, uses delicate brushwork and fiction to tell the story of the fleeing of marginal town women. They either flee their families or flee from marriages and sexual relations or from less and less satisfactory self. However, the result of the flight is either destructive or disappointing. Karla, the heroine of the novel “Escape,” was anxious to flee but was scared of an unknown future and chose to return on her way to escape. Monroe, with his profound experience of life, nuancedly captures the accidental moments in his life one may flee, highlighting the impermanence of destiny, giving enlightenment and stimulating thinking.