伊恩·麦克尤恩短篇小说叙事艺术

The Art of Narration in Ian McEwan's Short Stories

伊恩·麦克尤恩的短篇小说具有独特叙事艺术魅力,其短篇小说篇幅短小,将线性叙事结构和成长小说叙事模式有机结合起来。同时,根据反映现实和表达主题的需要,作者在叙述故事时采用了不同的叙述角度并灵活地转换视角。此外,作家除了娴熟运用自由直接引语和自由间接引语,也擅长根据叙述者的年龄和身份的不同选用不同的叙述语言。更能体现作者现代叙事技巧的是,麦克尤恩沿袭了西方现代小说诸多叙述形式要素(反讽、从人物的嘴里道出、视点的选择和象征形象等)来含蓄地显示自己的伦理立场。

Ian McEwan＇ s short stories have a unique charm of narrative skills. His short stories are short in length, which combine linear narrative structure and narrative mode. Besides, in response to the need to effectively reflect the reality and express the theme, McEwan tells the story from a different narrative point of view and changes the an- gle correspondingly. Furthermore, the writer is not only good at using free direct speech and free indirect speech, but also at selecting narrative language according to different ages and status of the narrators. What can better dis- play Ian McEwen＇ s narrative skills is the fact that he applies many narrative form elements of modem western no-vels （ irony, speaking out from the character＇ s mouth, viewpoint selections and symbolic images etc. ） to show their own ethical position implicitly.