《瘟疫年纪事》中的真实性书写

Authenticity Writing in A Journal of the Plague Year

在《瘟疫年纪事》这部堪称"虚构/真实"典范的作品中,笛福从历史文献、统计数据中获取相关事实,在此基础上展开虚构想象,重现了1665年伦敦瘟疫中的世间万相。这个创作过程由多重投射组成,即历史真相在虚构叙事中的投射、集体想象在真实生活中的投射、个人感知在社会共识中的投射以及社会公共性在个人主体性中的投射。而这些投射也正是小说承载的历史与当下、个人与他者、个人与社会多重关系的具体体现。有关瘟疫的真实性书写也由此融入了"虚构/真实"以及"个人主体性与社会公共性"的彼此建构过程中。

A Journal of the Plague Year is the example for the fiction/authenticity writing.Daniel Defoe was engaged in the imagination on the basis of the related facts gathered from historical literature,statistics,etc.,with the purpose of representing the whole picture of society stranded in the London Plague of 1665.His writing consists of multiple projections,namely,the projection of historical truth in the fictional narrative,the projection of collective imagination in the real life,the projection of personal understanding in public consensus,and the projection of social publicness in personal subjectivity,which are the concrete representations of the concerned multiple relationships.Thus,the authenticity writing of this book is integrated into the interactive construction between fiction and authenticity,personal subjectivity and social publicness.