“生活比死亡更可怕”:解读福厄《特别响,非常近》中的创伤叙事

An Interpretation of the Trauma Narrative in Jonathan S. Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

美国犹太作家乔纳森·福厄的《特别响,十分近》讲述了一个美国男孩在"9·11"事件中痛失父亲后,在纽约市的大街小巷拼命寻找与其留下的钥匙匹配的那把锁的凄美故事。与其他创伤叙事略微不同的是,作者运用包括图片叙述、"强迫性重复"及创伤转移等叙事策略,传递了其关于历史、时间、死亡、人生的意义等重大题材的感悟及思考。

Jewish American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer＇s 2005 masterpiece, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, tells a sad and touching story wherein a nine-year-old boy Oska, after losing his father in 9/11, searches every comer of New York City hoping against hope to find the lock for the key accidentally left by his father. Slightly different from other trauma narratives, Foer＇s includes pictography, compulsive repetition, and trauma transfer, thereby powerfully conveying his unique understanding of and deep thoughts about history, time, death, as well as the meaning of life in general.