“阉割的轴线”:《S/Z》叙事分析之一

Castrating Axis:The Reading Theory and Narrative Performative of Roland Barthes

罗兰·巴特的《S/Z》既是理论文本,又是叙事文本。那么,对它的分析则应在叙事理论与叙事形式的交叉往返中进行。阅读本身就是写作,这一行为使身体成为必然的中介。身体的介入使文本与读者达成叙事交易,在《S/Z》的论域中,交易的结果就是读者身体的易位——阉割。《S/Z》就是由"阉割的轴线"组织起来的另一个故事,它既是巴特对《萨拉辛》阅读的结果,也是其理论的试验场。巴特讲述的故事反过来又证明了另一种理论——叙事的述行性,尽管述行性一词并没有在文本中出现。

The S/Z of Roland Barthes is both a theoretical text and narrative text.So,the analysis of it should be done across the theory and the form of narrative.Reading itself is writing,which makes body become the inevitable agency.The interposition of body results in the narrative bargain between text and reader.In S/Z,the outcome of the bargaining is the castrated body of the reader.The S/Z is a new story systemized by the castrating axis,which is the result of reading ＂Sarrasine＂,and also the experimental ground of Roland Barthes＇ theory.The story told by Roland Barthes also bears out another theory in reverse,namely,the narrative performative theory,although the term doesn＇t appear in S/Z.