巴克《重生》的救赎主题

THE THEME OF HEALING IN PAT BARKER'S REGENERATION

《重生》是当代英国女作家巴克1991年出版的第一部战争题材小说,描写传统文化意识形态中的战争规约对人造成的压抑,探讨人如何摆脱精神困境的重生之途。战争规约中对男子汉精神的期许和战争正义性的期许给参战军人带来了巨大的精神压力,从而造成"弹震症"的发生。小说通过里弗斯医生的治疗过程强调了个人的本真意识,即"回忆性意识",并通过重建个人叙事形成与上述传统意识的对话,进而突破人们意识中传统价值观的牢笼,认清战争与人性对立的本质,重新获得精神的救赎。

Pat Barker is a contemporary British writer,who had her Regeneration published in 1991 as her first novel on the subject of war,depicting the repression of the Victorian war regulations over combatants during the First World War and searching for the ways of healing the mental wound.Shell shock is the result of the enormous pressure of the mind under the traditional idea of masculinity and war justice.Through individual narrative during the process of Dr.Rivers＇ medical treatment the novel exposes the tension and opens a dialogue between the individual consciousness in terms of the consciousness as it remembers things and the conventional war heroism or war justice so as to break down the constraint of the traditional values and to build up the understanding of the nature of war for human beings＇ spiritual healing.