形式实验主义与主题现实主义——从《金色笔记》试探索小说的形式、内容和功能

Formal experimentalism and thematic realism——Exploring the form,content and function of fiction from The Golden Notebook

在《金色笔记》中,莱辛将各种主题浑然成篇,为读者提供了富有个性的人物素描。作为"营造秩序、提出一种新的人生观"的预言家,她利用小说寓言了两性关系、人类社会的发展、人在未来宇宙空间的位置,并对生活作出哲学性的阐释。她还探求了小说在形式、内容和功能方面发生的变化,锐意改革:展示了以四本笔记,并穿插日记和剪报可以成篇的小说形式,从描述婚外恋的角度对小说内容进行革命。作者在笔记中也触及了社会现实,挖掘人的商业化态度,揭示了感情和财产、金钱和权力之间的关系,并运用象征,揭示了人性关系之本是彼此相依、驱散孤独,两性关系尤为如此。

In The Golden Notebook, Dorris Lessing melts all kinds of themes and offers the character description which is full of personality. As a prophet to construct order and put forward a new outlook on life, she predicts the sexual relationship, the development of society, people＇s position in the future universe with fiction, as well as makes the philosophical explanation on life. She also explores the changes of fiction in form, content and function, and is bent on reformation;shows the form of taking four notebooks as well as diary and cut newspaper compose fiction, from the aspect of describing extramarital love makes the content revolution of fiction. In the notebook, the author touches the social reality, extracts the people＇s attitude to commercialization, uncovers the relationship between feeling and estate, wealth, power. Exposes that the essence of human relationships is depending on each other and dispersing the loneli- ness, especially the sexual relationship.