化身·左手·死亡:《盲刺客》与阿特伍德的创作理念

Double,Left-hand and Death:The Blind Assassin and Atwood's Idea of Writing

阿特伍德的小说《盲刺客》的女主人公艾丽丝将明明是自己写成的作品说成是与死去的妹妹劳拉共同用"左手"完成,这一表面"匪夷所思"的论断实际上隐含了阿特伍德关于写作的三个基本理念:第一,写作是作家被某个神秘化身"附体"的过程;第二,"左手"是这种神秘创作力量的隐喻;第三,作品是作家与死者"协商"的结果。通过分析小说中母文本与子文本之间的生成关系和子文本的作者归属问题,我们可以挖掘出阿特伍德本人对写作的定位与态度,这将有助于我们换一角度来审视写作行为,同时对于理解加拿大当代文学的特点与走向都有一定的启示意义。

In Atwood＇s novel The Blind Assassin the protagonist Alice claims that her long gone sister Laura is the co-author of her book which is actually written by Alice exclusively.This statement implies three basic ideas of Atwood about writing：first, writing is such a process in which the author is controlled by a double;second,＂left-hand＂ is a metaphor for the mysterious creative force during writing; third, writing is a ＂negotiation＂ between the author and the dead.Through the analysis of how the ＂mother-text＂ generates the ＂son-text＂, we can dig out Atwood＇s idea of writing, which offers a new way for viewing writing from a different perspective, and even for understanding contemporary Canadian literature.