《拉哈尔茶馆的陌生人》结局解读

The Interpretation of the Ending in“ The Reluctant Fundamentalist”

《拉哈尔茶馆的陌生人》结尾给读者提供了丰富的想象空间,然而基于成见和偏见的解读都过于狭隘,不能反映作者用创新的叙述技巧精心设计小说结局的目的。认知诗学中的空白填充观认为虽然小说的结尾可以让读者任意填充,然而每一种填充如果站在读者的文化角度,就是不全面的。结尾的不确定性引发读者更深层次的思考。借用薛定谔猫理论阐明作者有意限制读者信息量,引导读者用多种可能性并存来解读结局,读者不能根据已有的文化观来揣摩结局。因为两位主人公昌盖兹和陌生的美国人都被定格在一种政治的等同概念中,结局是没有答案的结局。无知之幕引导读者超越偏见和情感,重新建构结尾的空白,理解不确定性。作者精心设计的结局不是为了要读者去猜测一个可能性的答案,而是为了教育不同文化背景,不同宗教的人应该站在平等的角度,互相包容,理解彼此文化的内涵。

The ending in ' The Reluctant Fundamentalist' arouses readers' rich imagination but every interpretation based on preconceptions and prejudices can not reflect the purpose of the ending elaborately designed by the author with original narrative skills because of parochialism. From the view of space filling in cognitive poetics, although the space can be filled by readers, readers' ideas are not comprehensive if based on their own perspectives of culture. The uncertainty of the ending invites more profound thinking. The author forces the readers to be a limited observer according to the theory of Schrodinger's cat in order to bring readers to various possibilities of the ending simultaneously without making judgment only from one's own culture. Both Changez and the American are permanently suspended within a kind of political equivalent to the theory, the ending can reach no answer. ' Veil of Ignorance' invites the readers to transcend prejudices and sympathy and reconstruct the space of the ending with the understanding of uncertainty. The ending elaborately devised by the author invites readers to embrace a different goal of political and cultural enlightenment with diverse background for the equal stance.