摘要
当代英国作家马丁·艾米斯的小说《夜间列车》拟写了侦探迈克追随天文学家詹妮弗的案件而进行调查和探索的故事。与典型的侦探小说不同的是,《夜间列车》并没有过多精彩的推理场景,而将笔墨转向大量的心理描写和氛围烘托。小说呈现的死亡母题书写、心理描写策略以及碎片化的拼贴手法建构了一种后现代侦探情境,其中贯穿的想象场景被人的听觉经验渗透;这种经验与小说中的(声音)想象互相融合,也与马丁·艾米斯“想象理性”的创作理念相契合。从声音现象学的角度审视《夜间列车》,可以发现,小说蕴含的声音现象在“客体声音”的经验转向、“相关性”构造的意识活动以及自言自听的声音形式都有所体现,小说中涉及意识层面的细节映射了声音客体与听觉主体的互动,展现出马丁·艾米斯深入到文本肌理内部的敏锐笔触。
Night Train,a novel by the contemporary British writer,Martin Amis,tells a story of Detective Mike’s investigation and probe into the case of the astronomer Jennifer.Unlike other typical detective novels,Night Train does not present the exciting scenes of reasoning excessively,but rather puts a lot of emphasis on depicting the inner workings of the mind and illuminating the ambience.The novel relies on a series of tactics,including the motif of death,the strategies of psychological description,and the device of fragmented collage,to build up a postmodern detective scenario through which an imaginary scene is penetrated by auditory experience that integrates with the imagination(of sound) in the novel and corresponds to Martin Amis’ s writing concept of “imaginative reason” as well.From the perspective of sound phenomenology,this article intends to analyze the various sound phenomena in Night Train,from the experienced turn of “the object voice” to the consciousness triggered by “aboutness”and the soliloquy-like vocal form,and to argue that the details concerning consciousness in the novel not only reflect the interaction between the object voice and the acoustic subject,but also exhibit Amis’ s subtle strokes inside its textuality.
作者
奚茜
Xi Xi(the School of Foreign Languages and Cultures,Chongqing University)
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第4期91-102,共12页
Foreign Literature Studies
基金
中国博士后科学基金面上资助项目“马丁·艾米斯小说中的声音与意识建构研究”(2022M710530)
中央高校基本科研业务费“当代英美小说中文学元素与法律问题的互动”(2021CDJSKJC24)。
