村上春树的叙事艺术——试析《海边的卡夫卡》

The Narrative Art of Murakami Haruki: A Tentative Analysis of Kafka at Seaside

村上春树的小说《海边的卡夫卡》在叙事上具有典型的现代小说之特点:借用传统文类“神话”构筑一个“互文性”叙事的开放性文本;运用音乐、绘画等形式中段叙事时间的连续性,使小说呈现出跨越时空的叙事结构;梦幻与现实的融合将一个普通的“我”的成长故事(小事件)和潜在着大事件踪迹—“二战”背景下的中田老人一生的故事整合为一体,使文本的叙事实现了对日常生活的关注同整个社会变化相联系的目的。

Kafka at Seaside by Murakami Haruki is a typically modern novel in terms of narration. The novel borrows the traditional genre ＂mythology＂ to construct an open intertextual narrative text. The novel also makes use of devices like music and painting to discontinue the narrative time, forming a narrative structure which transcends time and space. The mixture of fantasy and reality unites the life of an ordinary ＂Ⅰ＂ （small event） with the life of an old man named Nakada in the background of WW Ⅱ （hidden great event）. Thus, the purpose of viewing the ordinary life through the changes of the whole society is achieved.