创伤记忆的“重演”与“修通”——解读科辛斯基的《彩绘鸟》

The “Acting-out” and “Working-through” of Traumatic Memory: Reading Kosinski's The Painted Bird

科辛斯基在《彩绘鸟》中通过象征意象的应用以及对失语和暴力循环的描述,既把读者带入创伤性情景,又有意识地让他们超越创伤性情结,修通创伤记忆并对小说人物和事件保持批判性距离。

This paper discusses how, in his novel The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski has both successfully brought his reader into the traumatic scenes of history and enabled them to transcend and ＂work through＂ these traumatic memories, keeping a critical distance from the characters and narrated events by using the symbolic image of the painted bird and depicting the loss of speech and the cycle of violence.