《吉姆爷》的多重叙事声音

The Various Narrative Voices of Lord Jim

小说《吉姆爷》以多重复杂的叙述视角展开主人公吉姆的故事,小说最为突出的叙事特点是复杂多样的叙述视角产生了多样的叙事声音。多样的叙事声音可从故事内视角、故事外视角进行区分,故事内视角的叙事声音又可分非主人公声音、主人公声音,故事外视角的叙事声音又可分全知叙述声音、限知叙述声音。多样的叙事声音反映了作者康拉德在吉姆这个角色塑造上的考虑,他希望留给读者不同的声音,让读者自行甄别而不拘于一种世界观、价值观,这也是康拉德创作之反传统所在。

The novel Lord Jim tells the story of Jim in various complex narrative focuses, which results in a va-riety of narrative voices, bringing about the most outstanding narrative characteristic of this novel. The variousnarrative voices can be told from inner focus and outer focus, while the former can be further divided into non-protagonist voice and protagonist voice, and the latter can be further divided into almighty narrative voice andlimited narrative voice. These varied narrative voices reflect Conrad, the writer＇ s consideration in portrayingthe character Jim： he hoped to leave different voices to readers so that readers can tell the voices by them-selves, without being confined to one single world view and one single value view, and this represents exactlyConrad＇ s counter-traditional writing style.