摘要

弗兰纳里·奥康纳被公认为是继福克纳之后美国南方最杰出的作家。她以敏锐视角和独特观点诠释了宗教及死亡问题，尤其受家庭和疾病影响，其作品中表现出了强烈的宗教意识。
《慧血》是奥康纳的第一部作品，也是一部杰作。该小说以托金汉姆城市为背景，描述了主人公黑兹尔·莫茨试图远离基督·耶稣对他的影响，由此踏上的悲喜交加、精神幻灭与皈依的探索之路。本文以黑兹尔·莫茨的精神探索为切入点，并将其分为三部分：一、由有宗教信仰到无信仰；二、对宗教的偏离和自我追求；三、自我毁灭和救赎，结合奥康纳本人的特殊经历，重点分析奥康纳蕴含其中的宗教救赎观：通过塑造主人公黑兹尔·莫茨，讽刺人们对物质和金钱过分追逐从而缺失宗教信仰的社会现状，以期唤醒人们对精神世界的追求。

关键词：弗兰纳里·奥康纳，《慧血》，精神探索，救赎

Abstract

    Flannery O’Connor is acknowledged as the most outstanding fiction writer after William Faulkner in the southern literature of America. She explains religious issues and death with her gifted keen ears and unique voice. Being influenced deeply by family atmosphere and disasters, O’Connor shows strong religious consciousness in her many famous works.
Wise blood is not only her first work, but also a masterpiece. Set in fictional Taulkinham, Tennessee, the novel describes the complicated spiritual inquiry of Hazel Motes, who tries his hard to eradicate the influence of Jesus Christ from his life. 
Combined with Flannery O’Connor’s personnel special experiences, this paper takes Haze’s spiritual inquiry as an entry point and divides his inquiry into three parts, namely, from being faithful to faithless; deviation and pursuit; self-destruction and redemption. The paper emphatically analyzes her religious salvation that by creating the leading character, Hazel, O’Connor satirizes that people of that time excessively worshiped materialism and money, resulting in the lack of pious beliefs. By this way, O’Connor desires to awaken the soul of modern people.  

Keywords  Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood, spiritual inquiry, salvation

1  Introduction
As an important voice in American literature, Flannery O’Connor is an outstanding Southern fiction writer. She is well recognized as a master of the art of short fiction. Although her literary reviews were not plentiful, her reputation loomed large in American letters during her lifetime. It is considered that she was the first fiction writer in the twentieth century whose works were collected and published by the Literary of America.