质疑“进步”话语:三部英国小说简析

Querying the Narrative of "Progress": A Brief Analysis of Three English Novels

由狄更斯等人开创的质疑“进步”话语的传统在20世纪的英国一直持续着。约翰.韦恩、格雷厄姆.斯威夫特和朱利安.巴恩斯都是这一传统中继往开来的重要人物。他们分别创作的《山里的冬天》、《洼地》和《福楼拜的鹦鹉》也许只能被看作三个碎片,但是它们共同属于一部针对“进步”话语的推敲史,一部从19世纪延续下来的推敲史。

The tradition of querying the narrative of ＂progress＂, started by Dickens and his contemporaties, was carried forward in the 20th century Britain. John Wain, Graham Swift and Julian Barnes are all important figures in inheriting and developing that tradition. Their respective works, namely, A Winter in the Hills, Waterland and Flaubert＇ s Parrot, may well be looked upon as three fragments, but they all belong to a history of query into the narrative of ＂progress＂, a history which can be traced to the efforts made by such 19th century novelists as Dickens.