记忆、忘却、追梦--论《了了》的主题呈现

A Thematic Reading of Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated

乔纳森·萨福兰·福厄是一位书写记忆主题的当代美国犹太裔作家,他为数不多的几部力作中均能搜寻到记忆的痕迹。他的小说创作灵感来自记忆的长期积淀,是对个人悲苦经历、民族深重灾难乃至国家惨痛历史记忆的艺术升华。本文通过《了了》对往事的追忆,剖析作品极力挖掘过去、书写过去和力图活在过去的深刻内涵,以此探索小说刻画人物、呈现记忆和诠释信仰的不同层面,从而进一步揭示虚构的记忆与真实的记忆的揉合,记忆的冲突与消解的张力,以及作者所要达到的记忆与忘却的真正目的,最终完成超越现实和放飞梦想的夙愿。

Jonathan Safran Foer recurrently addresses the theme of memory in his works. Inspired by his long-term personal accumulation of memories, these works embody his artistic representation of memories from bitter personal experiences, tragic ethnic history, and painful national trauma. By tracing Foer＇s reminiscences of the past in his novel Everything Is Illuminated, this article examines how he laboriously digs into the past, wr/tes about the past and relives the past to create characters and analyze religious faith, integrating both fictional and real memories, dispelling the fear of being misunderstood, and eventually achieving the goal of transcending reality.