自我的呈现与超越——评艾丽丝·门罗的短篇小说《脸》

On Alice Munro's "Face"

艾丽丝·门罗的作品往往通过审视生活中的"平淡片段"来实现人物的自我呈现与超越。本文以其最新短篇《脸》为例,解读作者如何操纵叙事手段,尤其是通过建立在"知识/感知"轴上的不可靠叙事,完成对人物的心理揭示。另一方面,小说探讨和揭示了造成人物缺憾感的根源,即无所不在的"凝视"对自我的压抑,以及不同空间内隐藏的权利争夺,从而表达了作者独特的人文关怀。

In Alice Munro's works self-realization and self-transcendence are often achieved through reexamining life's 'commonplace occurrences'.This article,by taking Alice Munro's short story 'Face' as an example,is an attempt to interpret how the unreliable narration,especially the type based on the axis of knowledge/perception,helps her reveal the character's hidden darkness.It goes further to explore the origin of the character's sense of incompleteness and exclusion: the reductive and repressive force of the omnipresent 'gaze' upon the self.It argues that Alice Munro shows her unique humanistic concerns by representing the hierarchical power struggles through the juxtaposition of space.