“误读的焦虑”——麦克尤恩《赎罪》中的真实与误读的真实

"Anxiety of Misreading" in Ian McEwan's Atonement

麦克尤恩的小说《赎罪》中的"真实"与"虚构"、"元小说"特征等问题一直是评论界关注的重点。作为一部集现实主义、现代主义、后现代主义特征为一体的作品,小说中交织着多层面的真实与误读的真实。通过对该部作品多层面误读的分析,如布里奥妮及其父母对罗比的误读,读者对布里奥妮小说结局的误读,以及读者被布里奥妮引导的误读,本文认为这些误读是由"隐含作者"引导、布里奥妮"误导",及读者"认同"的结果,反映了麦克尤恩对误读的焦虑,及对误读的警示。

Metafictional aesthetics has been the central concern for many critics of Ian McEwan’ s novel Atonement in the discussion of his experiments with narrative forms that blur ＂truth＂ and ＂fiction.＂ Through an analysis of the multi-layered reading and misreading of the novel（i.e.Briony and her parents’ misreading of Robbie,the reader’ s misreading of the ending and the reader’ s misreading led by Briony）,this paper argues that these misreadings are undertaken under the guidance of the ＂ implied author,＂ the misguidance of Briony,and Kenneth Burke’ s notion of ＂ identification.＂ It further suggests that McEwan’ s meditation on misreading invites the reader to consider a representation of the world in which people might and often do misread what they see and experience, and encourages the reader to develop a multiperspective analysis before arriving at conclusions.