《法国中尉的女人》中萨拉的隐身与现身

Sarah's Invisibility and Visibility in The French Lieutenant's Woman

如果我们把自由理解为福尔斯所倡导的相对自由,那么,《法国中尉的女人》中的萨拉就是自由的。萨拉的自由主要来自于她在社会中的隐身,隐身不仅得益于她自己虚构的爱情故事以及她在罗塞蒂艺术世界的逃遁,还得益于叙述者、查尔斯、格罗根医生等男性的帮助。萨拉的现身是她无法逃离现实世界的结果,现身引发了她对自由与责任的重新思考,同时也激发了查尔斯对生活以及婚姻的重新认识。小说的开放结局为萨拉的隐身提供了新的维度,隐身与现身的变奏承载着以人物自由为主线的小说叙述自由。

If we tanke freedom as the relative freedom advocated by John Fowles （1926 -2005 ）, then Sarah in his The French Lieutenant＇s Woman （1969） is free in that she is invisible to the society she dislikes. Her invisibility results from her invented love story with the French lieutenant and her shelter in Rossetti＇ s notorious art studio with the aid of the male narrator, Charles and Doctor Grogan. Sarah＇ s visibility is the result of her inability to escape from the world of reality. Her visibility invites her to rethink about her freedom and responsibility and stimulates Charles＇ s reconsiderations of life and marriage. The open ending of the novel provides a new dimension for Sarah＇ s invisibility. The intermingling of visibility and invisibility casts light on the narrative freedom of fiction, which is highlighted by the freedom of the characters.