Worrying about the living life and fearing death are the common feelings of modern man as well as the subjects constantly covered in the western modernistic literature.

• 生之忧与死之惧是现代人的通病，也是西方现代主义文学不断触及的表现主题，荒诞的厌倦和恐惧构成现代主义文学悲剧意识的两大内容。