论石黑一雄《无可慰藉》中现代社会的精神异化

Spiritual Alienation in Modern Society: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled

石黑一雄的第四部小说《无可慰藉》以超现实主义的笔法,描摹了钢琴演奏家瑞德在一座谜样的城市里所经历的谜样的四天三夜。在小说中,空间形式的场所和景观如快镜头般一一闪过,并和记忆交织在一起形成了谜一般的书写形式。本文运用空间批评理论,从城市书写和家庭书写两个角度,探寻困在这个城市中形形色色人物的精神异化困境,进而体会作家为人类普遍生存状态担忧的人文主义情怀。

Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled traces the four surrealist days that pianist Ryder experiences in an enigmatic surrealist city. In the novel, places and landscapes flash by one after another and interweave with memories into a fascinating form of writing. From the perspective of urban writing and family writing, this essay investigates the dilemma of spiritual alienation that has entrapped all kinds of people inside the city, through which one can feel Ishiguro’s humanist concern for the living conditions of all human beings.