沉浸式体验:科马克·麦卡锡《路》中的“物感”危机叙事

Immersive Experience:The Crisis Narrative of“Sense of Things”in Cormac McCarthy's The Road

对科马克·麦卡锡小说《路》中垃圾书写、人类生存危机、伦理危机等的相关研究大多把“物”看作危机表征,对“物”在生态危机中的主体性作用鲜少关注。从“物感”出发去考量作品中物主体的隐退、消失和交织如何引发人物感应上的混沌、失序和断裂,能更好地阐释作品中“万物断联”的后世末日景象及麦卡锡独特的生态叙事效果,让读者在沉浸式的阅读体验中去感受人类与万物岌岌可危的关系,从而彰显麦卡锡“万物互联、互存”的后人文生态哲学观。

The majority of studies on Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road takes“things”as symbols of crisis,be it environmental,human survival,or ethical,with little attention paid to the active role of“things”in these crises.This paper,focusing on the“sense of things”,aims to explore how the withdrawal,disappearance,and interaction of things lead to the protagonists'sensory chaos,disorder and rupture,and how the telling of the sensory crisis contributes to the post-apocalyptic scene where all things are disconnected.By immersing the readers into such a scene,McCarthy is able to make them experience the precarious relationships between human beings and all things,and then better grasp his philosophical viewpoint of post-humanist ecology,one in which all things are interconnected and interdependent.