David Malouf's novel Fly Away Peter (1982) uses modernist techniques to describe the impact of modernity on the emergent Australian nation. At its centre is the country lad Jim Saddler, who dies in the industrialised battlefield in France. His fate is entwined with that of his friend Ashley Crowther, who inherits his family's property, and whose embrace of modernity includes a determination to preserve the land and its wildlife. Ashley recognises the value of Jim's instinctive connection with the natural world, and his knowledge of, and fascination with, birds. This fascination aligns Jim with the photographer Imogen Harcourt. Miss Harcourt is a modern woman, using the new technologies of representation to record the natural world, its movement and change. At the novella's end, it is Imogen who turns her lens towards a new future, as her grief for Jim is transfigured through an epiphanic vision of a surfer riding the waves to the beach.

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生活的层次：大卫·马洛夫的《飞走彼得》中的现代性和现代主义

David Malouf 的小说 Fly Away Peter (1982) 使用现代主义技巧来描述现代性对新兴的澳大利亚国家的影响。其中心是乡下小伙吉姆·萨德勒（Jim Saddler），他死于法国的工业化战场。他的命运与他的朋友阿什利·克劳瑟 (Ashley Crowther) 的命运纠缠在一起，后者继承了他家族的财产，而他对现代性的拥抱包括保护土地及其野生动物的决心。阿什利认识到吉姆与自然世界的本能联系以及他对鸟类的了解和迷恋的价值。这种迷恋使吉姆与摄影师伊莫金·哈考特 (Imogen Harcourt) 保持一致。哈考特小姐是一位现代女性，她用新的表现技术来记录自然世界，它的运动和变化。在中篇小说的结尾，是伊莫金将她的镜头转向了新的未来，