女性悲剧命运的众人言说——乔治·桑小说《莱丽亚》的多元叙述声音

Artistic Telling of Female Tragic Fate:On the Diversified Voices of George Sand's Lelia

乔治·桑是欧洲19世纪文学史中一位重要作家,她的作品类型多样,数量繁多,风格各异。《莱丽亚》是乔治·桑早期激情小说的代表作品,在人物形象、情节设置、语言风格等方面都颇具特色,被视为桑最优秀的作品之一。在这部小说中,作者积极探索小说的叙事手法,采用多元叙述声音的技巧来表现女性在父权制社会中的悲剧性命运。小说以女主人的身份疑问为主题,多位叙述者对此进行了不同的回答,这种叙事技巧不仅在一定程度上突破了浪漫主义时期充斥在文学作品中的男性英雄主义的叙事声音,而且清晰表达出女性对于自身价值和存在意义的深刻认识,标示出作者对女性命运所作的形而上探索。

George Sand is one of the important writers in European literature. In her whole life,she wrote many different styles of novels. Lelia is one of the most important novels in George Sand's early works,and has different characters,plot and language in comparison with her other works. In this novel,the author explored the narrative skills and adopted diversified voice to express the tragic fate of female in the patriarchal society. Concerning the theme of heroine's identity,several narrators answered this question in their own opinions. By using this narrative skill,Sand broke the male's voice in romantic literature,expressed women's consciousness of their own value of existence,which indicated that she made a metaphysical exploration of women's fate in the novel.