菲利普·罗斯的长篇小说《美国牧歌》自1997年问世以来就得到了评论界的高度赞誉,次年便获得了普利策文学奖。该小说讲述了以利沃夫家族为代表的犹太移民从大萧条到20世纪末的追梦历程,生动刻画了利沃夫一家坎坷的命运和跌宕起伏的人生。罗斯在小说中运用现实主义与后现代主义相结合的手法来书写历史,进而探寻美国犹太人的文化身份问题,其最终目的是探析造成利沃夫家族在追寻美国梦的过程中所付出的惨重代价的社会和文化根源,这种新现实主 Philip Rose’s novel American Pastoral, which has enjoyed a high degree of praise in the critics since its publication in 1997, won the Pulitzer Prize for literature the following year. The novel tells the story of Jewish immigrants represented by the Lviv family from the Great Depression to the end of the 20th century. It vividly depicts the ups and downs of Lviv’s life. In the novel, Rose uses the combination of realism and postmodernism to write history, and then explores the cultural identity of the American Jews. The ultimate goal is to find out the price of causing the Lviv family to pursue the American dream The social and cultural roots of this new reality Lord