复调:从音乐到小说——解读库切《凶年纪事》的音乐结构

Polyphony:From music to novel——An interpretation on the musical structure of Diary of a Bad Year

"复调音乐大师"巴赫通过高超的复调手法,将复调音乐发展到了极完美的境地,巴赫金则将复调引入小说理论体系,而南非后殖民文学代表人物J.M.库切将音乐和小说的复调性渗透到他的文学创作中,2007年出版的小说《凶年纪事》在形式上和内容上都表现了故事的单声部纵向发展,而且还体现了不同声部的横向发展。三个声部的合音,组成了一曲完整而又跌宕起伏的完美乐章。库切通过不同的叙述角度塑造独特的人物、故事情节、叙述艺术,对文学与政治、文化与民族等诸多重大问题展开探讨,以此体现独特的审美特征。

The master of polyphonic music, Bach, who uses the excellent polyphonic skill to perfect the music.Bahktin firstly introduces the concept of polyphony into the novel theory system. While, the representative writer of post-colonialism, J.M.Coetzee, combines the creation of the literary works with the music sense. Diary of a Bad Year not only demonstrates the vertical development of the story in the content and the writing forms, but also shows the horizontal development of the plot. The combined sound of three voices composes a perfect lyric with ups and downs. Coetzee probes into the discussion of the literature and politics, the culture and nationalities and so many big events through the different narrative perspectives to construct the unique characters, story plots, the narrative arts, which demonstrates the unique appreciation of the literature beauty.