ABSTRACT

This article considers Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success as a literary exploration of alienation that is set against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election in the United States. It exposes alienation as involving and also transcending immigrant identity, the central subject of most of Shteyngart’s works. By putting Lake Success into conversation with Rahel Jaeggi’s theory of alienation and American authors who comment on the subject, I argue that Shteyngart showcases its ubiquity and the ways in which self-alienation and social alienation relate to one another in the face of President Donald Trump’s attempts to alienate and vilify immigrants and other diverse individuals in America. In the process, Shteyngart exposes missed opportunities for self-realization and invites America as a nation to subvert alienation and find success in and through its hybridity and diversity.

摘要

本文将加里·施泰因加特（Gary Shteyngart）的《成功的湖》（Lake Success）视为异化的文学探索，背景是在2016年美国总统大选的背景下进行的。它揭露了异化涉及并超越了移民身份，这是Shteyngart大部分作品的中心主题。通过把成功湖在与拉赫尔·贾格（Rahel Jaeggi）的异化理论以及对此问题发表评论的美国作者进行对话时，我认为，面对唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）试图疏远和分裂总统，施泰因加特（Steyngart）展示了它的普遍性以及自我异化和社会异化相互联系的方式。侮辱美国的移民和其他多样化的个人。在这一过程中，施泰因加特（Steyngart）暴露了自我实现的机会，并邀请美国作为一个国家来颠覆疏远，并在其混杂和多样性中并从中获得成功。