从历史编撰元小说角度解读《赎罪》的后现代叙事

An Analysis of Post-modern Narration of Atonement from the Perspective of Historiographic Metafiction

英国作家伊恩·麦克尤恩的《赎罪》创新地运用历史编撰学与元小说相结合的传统叙事手法,充分利用史料进行了接近真实世界的叙述。灵活运用元小说叙事技巧给读者提供了广阔的解读空间并充分赋予了文本表现力。从"历史编撰元小说"的角度解读《赎罪》,阐述伊恩·麦克尤恩利用元小说自我反射、自揭虚构等各种形式技巧,通过对历史的重访和重构,来呈现历史的虚构性与叙述性融合的后现代叙事特征。

In Atonement,McEwan combines the narrative strategies of historiography and metafiction in an original way. The narrator,with plenty of historical material,presents the possible world which is close to history. The use of these strategies not only provides the reader with a broad reading space but also shows the plentiful expressive force of the text. This article analyzes Atonement from the perspective of historiographic metafiction. It gives prominence to revealing the post-modern narration which is characterized as the combination of the fictionality and narrativity of history by interpreting the use of self-reflection,self-disclosure,and other skills in metafiction,as well as the way of revisiting and reconstructing history.