论罗曼·加里小说《天根》的对话叙事艺术

On the NarrativeArt of Dialogues in The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary

罗曼加里的小说《天根》通过讲述上世纪五十年代发生在法属赤道非洲的猎象与反猎象的故事,试图唤起人们对生态的关注和保护。《天根》的成功既源于它深刻的思想内涵,更源于它别具一格的叙事形式。小说采用对话为主要叙事方式,并以其产生的内在动力将读者引入人物的不同维度。同时,这种特定的叙事策略也展现出作者、文本现象以及读者反应三者构建的复合关系。作者以不同的对话方式塑造人物,推动故事情节的发展,使小说的内容与形式相得益彰。本文试从聚焦式对话、剪接式对话和独白式对话等三个方面分析《天根》的对话叙事策略,以揭示小说深刻的思想内涵和独特的艺术魅力。

Romain Gary＇s novel The Roots of Heaven tells of the story about elephant poaching and anti-poaching, which occurred in French Equatorial Africa in 1950s, as an attempt to arouse human＇s awareness of nature protection. The success of this novel not onlyresults from its profound ideological content, but also from its dialogues as a major element in its narrative art. The fiction applies dialogues as its main narrative mode, whose inner dynamic drives readers into the multiple dimensions of the characters in it. Furthermore, this special narrative strategy presents the composite relationship among the author, the text and the reader. Various dialogue strategies are utilized in the story＇s characterization and plot development, which contributes to the artistic unity between its content and form. This paper tries to analyze the narrative art of dialogues from the focused dialogue, clipped dialogue and monologue in The Roots of Heaven, which may help to reveal its deep ideological connotations and unique artistic charm.