约翰·霍克斯的《第二层皮》所描写的是二战时期的一个海军军官的人生历程,同时也是这个老兵的心路历程,在经历了战争与死亡之后,他在回想与面对和展望中的生活状态。以梦魇的笔锋,虚拟的线索,书写的却是真实清晰的人生。从约翰·霍克斯对主题的挖掘上,可以看出他深厚的先锋派作家的文字功底,开创了先锋派作家又一个探索死亡之美的主题,并揭示了一个时代的人的心路走向和内心与现实之间的矛盾与冲突,从而彰显先锋派作家的人本性描写核心。 John Hawkes’s “The Second Skin” describes the journey of life of a naval officer during World War II as well as the mentality of the veteran. After experiencing the war and death, he recalled the face and the future In the state of life. In the nightmare of the pen, virtual clues, writing is a real clear life. From John Hawks’s excavation of the theme, we can see that his profound avant-garde writer’s writing skills, creating avant-garde writers another theme to explore the beauty of death, and reveals the mentality and innermost feelings of an era Contradictions and conflicts with the reality, so as to highlight the core of human nature description of avant-garde writers.