艾·辛格小说《巴士》的叙事技巧探究

A Narratological Study of "The Bus" by Issac Bashevis Singer

艾萨克.辛格因其小说以充满激情的叙事艺术来展现犹太文化以及人类的普遍处境而获得诺贝尔文学奖。本文从叙事学的角度入手,以辛格的短篇叙事故事《巴士》为例,从叙事视角、叙事时间和空间的设置及其他叙事技巧几个层面上来分析辛格的短篇小说,重点探讨辛格是如何通过有限、间断、淡化的时间序列来构建无限、立体和凸显的空间意象,从而达到时间序列叙事作品的图景化效果。

Issac Bashevis Singer,a Polish-born American novelist and short-story writer,won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 for his passionate and dramatic presentation of story-telling,and careful examination of Jewish faith in the lives of his characters.From a narratological approach,the paper aims to appreciate one of his short stories 'The Bus' based on such aspects as perspective,time and space,and other narrating skills.