《海浪》中现代自我的叙述构筑

Narrative Construction of Modern Selves in The Waves

《海浪》是一部高度实验性的现代主义小说作品。本文以叙事学理论为依据,研究该小说的形式创新对主题的贡献,认为多重叙述声音、印象式呈现、独白、引子等叙述手法的运用有效地呈现了现代社会自我的不稳定性,传达了现代自我感受到的种种煎熬和不安全感。六位叙述者毕生尝试通过语言构筑稳定的自我,但对叙述行为的高度自觉导致他们对自己叙述的内容产生自我怀疑、自我瓦解,他们的努力最终均以失败告终。现代自我苍白的叙述语言被海浪的轰鸣声淹没。

The Waves is a highly experimental modernist novel. Based on narratology, this article is intended to analyze the contribution of its formal innovations to the presentation of its theme, arguing that such techniques as multiple narrative voices, impressionist presentation, monologues and interludes effectively represent the precarious status of modem selves. Though the six narrators try to construct stable selves by the use of language, self-conseiousness of the narrative behavior leads them to doubt and undermine their own narration, and thus frustrates their attempts. The powerless narration of modem selves is finally drowned in the thunderous sounds of the waves.