从辛格的叙事策略看《傻瓜吉姆佩尔》的犹太文化主题

A Narratological Interpretation of the Jewish Cultural Connotation in Gimpel the Fool

当代美国犹太作家艾萨克·巴舍维斯·辛格的代表作《傻瓜吉姆佩尔》采用第一人称叙述,透过犹太个体创伤记忆的独特视角观照民族历史遭际,传达出对历史上普遍存在的反犹主义迫害这种敏感问题的审视和苦涩的反思。作品在情节的敷设上与《圣经》构成互文性指涉,通过对先知何西阿故事的主题的颠覆,凸显出对传统犹太教上帝观的质疑。作品叙事中蕴涵着对犹太民族历史与现实深刻的思索,是美国犹太文学流变中不容忽视的文本现象。

Isaac Bashevis Singer＇s most famous short story Gimpelthe Fool is an account of a personal traumatic life expe-rience,which,through the first-person narration,also represents a bitter examination of such a sensitive issue as wide-spread anti-Semitism in Jewish history.Singer constitutes a referential intertextuality with the＂Book of Hosea＂in The Bible,through which he conveys his challenge against the traditional Jewish concept of God＇s mercy.Gimpelthe Fool pro-foundly contains a perplexed reflection on Jewish history and the current situation of Jewish people,which should be re-garded as a valuable text in American Jewish literature.