叙述时空的变异——从巴尔扎克到福克纳

Variation of Narrative Space: From Balzac to Faulkner

作为十九世纪欧洲最伟大的现实主义大师,巴尔扎克给世界留下了十分宝贵的文学遗产,并对后来作家的文学创作产生了深远的影响。作为二十世纪现代主义的重要作家,福克纳的作品,具有巴尔扎克系列小说那样的宏观结构。它既承袭了前者的某些叙事特点,又极大地丰富了文学的表现形式。本文以巴尔扎克为参照,从叙述时间和空间的角度探讨了福克纳对传统叙述模式的革新,并分析其所具有的意义。

As a greatest realistic giant in 19th century Europe, Balzac has left the world not only a treasured literary heritage, but also made a profound influence on the works of later writers. As one of the most important modernist writers, Faulkner uses a macrostructure in his novels as Balzac does in his series of novels. He has endowed his novels with some of Balzac' s narrative characteristics and, at the same time, has tremendously diversified the literary forms of expression. With Balzac as an object of reference, this paper elaborates, in a perspective of narrative time and space, on Faulkner' s innovative approach to the conventional mode of narration, and finally explicates what such an approach signifies.