摘要
作为"神话重述"系列之一,珍妮特·温特森的小说《重量》不仅在内容上安排背负苍天的阿特拉斯最终放下宇宙,让为生活所困的当代叙述者不断出走,为这些人物设想了放下重负的种种可能,而且在叙述实践上放下"宏大叙事"和"影响的焦虑"等重负,通过复调型私人叙事、杂语和时空体对话等异质化叙述方式思考存在的个体特异性和荒诞性、责任的必然性和自由的相对性,赋予了古典神话以当代意义和新的生命力。
： As part of the ＂Myth Rewriting＂ series from Random House, Jeanette Winterson＇s novel Weight rewrites myth to free its characters from existential burdens. In this novel the mythical Atlas casts the universe off his shoulders and the contemporary nar- rator keeps breaking away from traps in life through self-exile. Moreover, the novel itself casts aside the burdens of ＂Grand Narrative＂ and ＂Anxiety of Influence＂ by freely emplo- ying heterogeneous narrative methods. Through a mixture of polyphonic private narration, heteroglossia and dialogue between chronotopes, the novel reflects on the uniqueness of the individual, the absurdity of existence, the necessity of responsibility and the relativity of freedom, endowing the classical myth of Atlas with contemporary significance and renewed life.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2014年第1期57-64,共8页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
国家社会科学青年基金项目"布雷德伯里批评思想及学院派小说研究"(10CWW019)的阶段性成果
