论石黑一雄《长日留痕》的回忆叙述策略

On the Remembering Narration Strategy in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day

《长日留痕》是当代日裔英籍作家石黑一雄的代表作。小说以日记体形式,叙述了管家史蒂文斯在英国西部进行的六天旅行。回忆既是小说的叙述形式,也是作者结构情节的方式。史蒂文斯对往事的叙述体现了回忆的不可靠性、碎片化和选择性特点。回忆叙述在整个叙事中成为了小说不可或缺的主题,一方面凸显了所选择事件在史蒂文斯心中的地位,使读者看到他终于有勇气直面自己的内心世界、对肯特小姐的爱和对达林顿勋爵趋于客观的评价;另一方面也模糊了不同事件间的界限,使回忆中弥漫着沧桑的历史感,这也是作者石黑一雄本人站在客观角度上对历史进行的一种重新审视。

The Remains of the Day, the representative novel of the contemporary Japanese British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, records Stevens’ six-day trip into the west of England in the form of diary. Remembering narration, as an essential part of the whole narrative, is the way in which the novel’s narration goes and the way the author structures the plot. Stevens’ narration of the past events reflects the characteristics of unreliability, fragmentization, and selectivity of remembering narration, through which, on the one hand, readers see the weight of the selected events in Stevens’ s mind, Stevens’ s courage to face his inner world, his love for Miss Kenton, and his increasingly objective judgment on Lord Darlington; on the other hand, the boundaries of different events are blurred, thus giving remembrance a historical sense and providing Kazuo Ishiguro with an objective point of view to reexamine history.