“引人遐想、耐人寻味的叙述”——读艾丽丝·门罗的《恨、友谊、追求、爱和婚姻》

“Evocative and Luminous Phrases”:Reading Alice Munro's Hateship,Friendship,Courtship,Loveship,Marriage

短篇小说集《恨、友谊、追求、爱和婚姻》是门罗艺术成就的代表之作。1952年加拿大广播公司一位内部审稿人注意到门罗早期作品中存在"引人遐想、耐人寻味的叙述",本文认为此种风格的叙述贯穿了门罗各个时期的作品。在《恨》收录的多篇短篇小说中,"引人遐想、耐人寻味的叙述"是理解作品的关键,如《家传家具》、《恨、友谊、追求、爱和婚姻》、《梁与柱》、《熊从山那边来》以及《荨麻》,尤以最后一篇最为典型。门罗围绕"逐渐浮出水面的真相"构建这些故事,故事中既有自传性的事实与境遇,也有对这些事实与境遇的虚构性想象,两者在叙述中交织融合。短篇小说集《恨》将门罗的小说艺术推向了高峰。

This essay reads Munro's 2001 story collection as embodiment of her artistic accomplishment.Beginning with a 1952 internal Canadian Broadcasting Corporation(CBC)reader noting'evocative and lumi-nous phrases'in two of Munro's earliest stories,it argues that such phrases have informed Munro's fiction throughout her career.In Hateship,these phrasings are key to'Family Furnishings','Hateship,Friendship,Courtship,Loveship,Marriage','Post and Beam','The Bear Came Over the Mountain'and especially 'Nettles'.There Munro structures her stories around'real facts in the making',combining autobiographical facts and situations with her imaginative renderings of them.This collection reveals Munro at the height of her accomplished art.