摘要
胡黛·巴莱卡特的书信体小说《夜信》以五封缺头少尾的神秘信件勾勒出濒于社会边缘的当代阿拉伯流散者的生活原貌。作者仿构迷宫迂回多歧的建筑形态,借助“叙事要素的空白”和“记忆的不可靠性”搭建迷宫结构,通过参照物的设置引导“探行者”在迷宫中反复游走与兜绕,以闭环式迷宫实现对阿拉伯民族迷宫之境的映照,并通过迷宫叙事策略巧妙地将不同人物的流散经历与边缘体验进行串联,让读者在选择通往迷宫出口不同路径过程中探寻文本的现实意义,在聆听信件主人自白的过程中自觉地对阿拉伯民族迷宫般的生存境遇进行评述与审思。
In five mysterious letters without headings and endings,The Night Mail,an epistolary novel by Hoda Barakat,outlines the life of contemporary Arab diasporas who have been marginalized by society.By imitating the circuitous multipath,a standard feature in the architectural form of the labyrinth,the author builds the labyrinth structure with“the blankness of narrative elements”and“the unreliability of memory,”guides the maze traders to walk and circle in the labyrinth repeatedly through the pre-set reference objects,and sets up the circular labyrinth as a contrast to the labyrinthine situation of the Arab nations.Also,the diasporic and marginal experiences of different characters are subtly interwoven through the labyrinth narrative strategy,so that readers can not only explore the realistic ramifications of the text while choosing the different paths to the exit of the labyrinth,but also consciously comment and reflect on the Arab nations’labyrinthine existence as they read through the confessions of the letter writers.
作者
任宏智
Ren Hongzhi(the School of Foreign Languages,Peking University)
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第4期127-137,共11页
Foreign Literature Studies
基金
国家社会科学基金重大项目“新世纪东方区域文学年谱整理与研究2000—2020”(17ZDA280)。
