摘要
小说《问题的核心》的一个显著特征就是其中含有《圣经》故事原型的重写。格雷厄姆·格林分别赋予斯考比和尤塞夫以耶稣和撒旦的角色,但二者演绎的故事变得荒诞滑稽,存在格局被重新构筑,所寓意的善恶界限变得模糊不清。对《圣经》神话的颠覆性处理旨在揭示天主教义倡导的传统善恶价值观的嬗变,而格林自身的多重人格也是促成这种创作的因素。格林对《圣经》原型"不忠"式的重写说明,在充满剧变的后现代语境中,宗教言语维护正统、书写历史的权力正在弱化,变成作家自由嬉戏的对象。
In Graham Greene＇s The Heart of the Matter, Scobie the protagonist and Yusef the black marketeer respectively harken back in characterization to Jesus and Satan in the Bible. In the absurdist story where definitions of good and evil overlap, however, both biblical archetypes undergo deconstruction to demonstrate the mutation of traditional values advocated by Catholicism and to some extent embody Greene＇s own complex personality as well. The disloyal rewriting of the Bible reveals that myths are experiencing a decline in power to maintain dominant beliefs and to narrate history, and have therefore been turned into an object of free play in literature.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2015年第3期92-98,共7页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
基金
何江胜主持的国家社会科学基金项目“神话与英美现代主义文学研究”(项目批准号:11BWW046)阶段性成果
