伟大的小说,矛盾的形象——《押沙龙,押沙龙》复调特征和主人公斯特潘形象浅析

A Great Novel A Contradictory Image--Rough Analysis of Polyphony and Image of Central Character Sutpen in Absalom, Absalom!

复调小说就是直接由小说中各主要人物来叙述故事和塑造矛盾的或有争议的人物形象、具 有开放性、未完成性和未定论性的小说。这种创作风格被二十世纪以来英美现代派作者广泛运用。作为 美国南方文艺旗手威廉·福克纳最伟大但最不为人所知的小说之一,《押沙龙,押沙龙!》前卫地运用了 复调,由四个主要人物及其读者们一起来探索主人公斯特潘扑朔迷离的故事和塑造他的矛盾的或有争议 的形象——奴隶制残忍无情的恶魔,开拓时代奋发进取的英雄,美国社会令人发指的种族主义者-并以此 来抨击和歌颂斯特潘及其旧南方,探讨斯特潘及其家族乃至整个旧南方兴盛衰亡的原因。

The novel with polyphony is a sort of novel with opening, incompleteness and undecidedness in which main characters narrate stories and create contradictory or controversial images. This style of creation has been widely employed by British and American literary modernists since the 20th century. As one of the greatest and the most obscure novels of Southern literary flag William Faulkner in America, Absalom, Absalom! takes the lead in the employment of polyphony, in which the four main characters and its readers uncover the central character Sutpen＇s mysterious story and create his contradictory, controversial and kaleidoscopic image： a savage monster in the slavery, an aggressive hero in the westward exploitation and a hideous racial discriminist in American society, and through which the four main characters and readers condemn or praise Sutpen and the old South, and probe some causes of the rising and falling of Sutpen, his own family and the old South.