《网之下》是爱尔兰艾丽丝·默多克的小说处女作和成名作,甚至被认为是她最优秀的小说。由于该小说主人公杰克与萨特《恶心》中的洛根丁甚至和当时英国的“愤怒青年”有很大相似性,于是小说常被归入“愤怒青年”和存在主义之列。而实际上在他们表面的相似性背后却存在着本质性区别。本文将通过把《网之下》与《恶心》和“愤怒青年”的作品进行比较,辨析杰克这个现代流浪者的独特性,从而把握默多克小说对人的本质失落与回归这个独特主题的关注。 “Under the Net” is a novel by Albert Murdoch, Ireland, debut novel, even considered her best novel. Because the novel’s protagonist Jack and Logan in Sartre’s “disgusting” even have a lot of similarities with “Angry youth” in England at that time, the novel is often classified as “angry youth” and existentialism . In fact, there is an essential difference behind their superficial similarity. By comparing the works of “Under the Net” with “Nausea” and “Angry Young”, this article analyzes the uniqueness of Jack, a modern wanderer, so as to grasp the uniqueness of Murdoch’s novel in its loss and return to human nature Theme of concern.