流散者 模仿者 他者——试析奈保尔作品中人物形象的边缘性

Diaspora Who Imitator Other——Naipaul Works of Marginal Characters Analysis

2001年诺贝尔文学奖获得者奈保尔是一个具有多重身份的作家,他本身的边缘性对其创作产生了很大的影响,因而作品中人物形象的边缘性特色也是显而易见的——他们是一些困惑的漂泊者(流散者)、戴着面具的模仿者、与环境格格不入的他者等等。通过他们,奈保尔力图告诉人们的是:外来移民和移居宗主国的原殖民地人,无论他身份如何变化,都只能是一个永远的流散者和边缘人。

2001 Nobel Literature Prize winner Naipaul is a writer of multiple identities, the marginality of Naipaul himself has a great influence on his literature writing, the characters in his works also have obvious features of marginality. These characters are some puzzled rovers, some immigrants who are incompatible with environments, some imitators with masks. Through these characters, what Naipaul attempts to inform us is that the immigrants and the colonist emigrating to suzerain are merely rovers and margin -persons for ever regardless of any change of their cultural status.