Abstract: J.M.Coetzee, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003, is famous for his special writing style: obscure, imaginative, poetic and being full of twisty thinking. And In the Heart of the Country is a typical novel which resists interpretation. Different critics have explored the novel in the light of post-colonialism or feminism. In order to get a new understanding of the novel, I will present a new reading of In the Heart of the Country with recourse to eco-criticism in the hope of seeing through the puzzling world of language and reaching the core of the human life--the nature.

Key words: language, eco-criticism, nature

摘要：03年诺贝尔文学奖得主库切的作品写作风格独特，语言晦涩难懂，笔调细腻深邃，具有丰富的内涵和罕见的深度。《内陆中心》更是这样的一部小说。尽管如此，国内外众多文学批评者们还是敢于玩勇敢者的游戏，从女性主义后殖民角度等对该小说展开阐释。本文试图结合生态批评理论，在这一新的视角下阅读理解《内陆中心》，以期提出新的见解和得出不同结论。或许我们该走出纷繁的语言迷宫,拥抱语言一直接近却永远无法达到的自然。

关键词：语言，生态批评论，自然