伏笔中的悬念与悬念中的伏笔:评莫里森《柏油娃娃》

Suspense in Foreshadowing and Foreshadowing in Suspense:A Review of Toni Morrison's Tar Baby

莫里森在《柏油娃娃》里主要采用了"开篇即悬"、"篇中设悬"和"篇尾仍悬"三类悬念写作策略,使悬念在阅读和欣赏过程中产生的认知性情感迁移具有正向和负向两个发展方向,激发读者的阅读兴趣。该小说中的悬念及伏笔并非孤立存在,而是整个故事情节发展中不可或缺的有机成分;它们交融互补、相辅相成,构成了复杂多变、完整严密的叙事网络;各自在自己的结点上发挥着必不可少的作用,使小说结构成为一个表达作者创作理念和小说主题的完美载体。

In Tar Baby, Toni Morrison mainly applies initial suspense, middle suspense and ending suspense of uncertainty to activate readers＇ interest. The cognitive emotional transference caused by the suspense appearing in the reading and appreciation of the novel develops in either positive or negative direction. The suspense and foreshadowing designed in the novel are not isolated, but skillfully integrated with the plot development of the whole story, supplementing and enriching each other to form a complete and well-knit narrative web, which plays an essential function and turns the fictional structure into a happy carrier of the author＇ s writing principles and the theme of the novel.