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目录 摘要i Abstract iii Chapter1 Introduction1 1.1 Colum McCann and Let the Great World Spin 1 1.2 Camus’ Philosophy of Absurdity 4 1.3 Literature Review7 Chapter2 Men are Absurd Beings 12 2.1 Their Lives are Absurd 12 2.1.1 Corrigan and Soderberger’s Absurd Lives 13 2.1.2 Gloria’s Absurd Lives 16 2.2 Why does the Absurdity Exist in Life? 17 2.2.3 Camus’ Thought to the Absurdity 17 2.2.4 Colum McCann’s Thought to the Absurdity 20 Chapter3 The Resistance of Absurd Beings 22 3.1 Awakening from Absurd Existence 22 3.1.1 Corrigan and Soderberger’s Understanding of Absurdity 22 3.1.2 Gloria’s Acceptance to the Absurd Life 25 3.2 The Individual Struggle in Misery Destiny 28 3.2.1 The Positive Resistance of Corrigan and Gloria 30 3.2.2 The Negative Resistance of Soderberg 32 3.3 The Collective Resistance to Survival Dilemma 35 Chapter4 The Enlightenments of the Absurdity 38 4.1 The Self-Regeneration Capacity 38 v 4.2 Hopes and Salvation 43 Chapter5 Conclusion 49 Bibliography 54 Acknowledgements Declaration vi Chapter1 Introduction 1.1 Colum McCann and Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann is an American writer of Irish origin. He was born in Dublin in 1965 and grew up in the countryside there. During his childhood, he was influenced by his father who was a journalist and writer. When he was young McCann had read a large number of books with rich topics, including both the sadness of Irish tradition and the new breath of the American “Lost Generation”. It was reading that inspired his earliest creative