论《洼地》的“一流叙事”

On the "First-Class Narration" in Waterland

本文由叙事角度切入对格雷厄姆.斯威夫特的小说《洼地》的讨论,用叙述者的言说困境表明意义的不在场,用因果律的失败表现终极解释的迷失,由此阐释作者对宏大叙事的解构。与此同时,文章分析了小说中侦探、迷信、童话、谣言及传奇等成分,旨在发掘这些非主流叙事策略是如何建构个人及家族历史的。这些叙事策略也在不同层次上建构了一种循环模式,深刻表明历史和生活的循环往复特质。文章认为,小说解构与建构双向展开的成功尝试,是造就其"一流叙事"的关键因素。

From the aspect of narration,this paper analyzes how Waterland deconstructs the Grand Narrative: the narrator's speech predicament manifests the absence of meaning;the failure of the law of causality indicates the loss of the ultimate explanation.Meanwhile,this paper analyzes the non-mainstream narrative strategies,such as detective stories,superstitions,fairytales,rumors and legends,which construct not only ordinary people's personal and familial history but also the circulation mode of historical development at different levels.Deconstruction and construction are used together to make the 'first-class narration' in Waterland.