作家笔下的作家——简析《赎罪》与《追风筝的人》中主人公作家形象的设定

On the Writer's Writer——The Writer Image in Atonement and The Kite Runner

每一个作家在其作品中主人公的设定问题上都是煞费苦心的,很多作家选择了同样是作家的人物作为主人公展开叙事。英国作家伊恩·麦克尤恩的《赎罪》与美籍阿富汗裔作家卡勒德·胡塞尼的《追风筝的人》两部作品在相类似的"犯罪—救赎"的情节下,不约而同的将主人公设置为童年就很有写作天分的作家,这无疑可以为故事的发生发展提供更合理的机会。而以作家这种特殊角色作为叙述者,客观上实现了第一人称叙事与全知视角的共生。同时可以直接让主人公成为作家的代言人,完成作品的代偿性功能。

Every writer on the problem of setting the heroine works are painstaking. Many writers chose the same character of writer as hero. British writer Ian Mc Ewan＇s Atonement and Afghan American Khaled Hosseini＇s The Kite Runner are happen to coincide set the protagonist to very talented writer,and set them in the similar stories. Through the analysis,writer when set the protagonist conscious provides the opportunity for the development of the story; make the special role of writer as the narrator,objective to achieve the first- person narration and omniscient perspective at same time. At the same time,it more likely to make the hero become a spokesperson of writer,and complete the compensatory function