叙事与生命美学之博弈——《洛丽塔》中的象棋叙事

Chess for Aesthetics' Sake:Chess Narrative Strategy in Lolita

弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫的主要作品大多涉及象棋问题。象棋作为叙事模式参与到文本之中,赋予文本内在的自主结构。从象棋隐喻角度分析骑士的移步有助于探讨纳博科夫在《洛丽塔》中对生命美学本质的求索。正如亨伯特对洛丽塔造成的伤痛,骑士移步的结构性隐喻代表了艺术创作对生命艺术造成的无法避免的伤害。纳博科夫推崇的是蝴蝶般有生有死的美,但这种生命美学在文学叙事中却遥不可及,无法维系。

Vladimir Nabokov＇s main works are chess problems. As a narrative strategy, chess problems are put into the text and shape the narrative structure. Knight＇s move is among those chess strategies Nabokov applied. The analysis of knight＇s move from the perspective of chess metaphor contributes to offering Nabokov＇s exploration to the essence of mortal aesthetics in Lolita. Like Humbert＇s harm to Lolita, the structural metaphor of knight＇s move represents a threat to the aesthetic bliss of art. The ultimate art admired by Nabokov should be a living thing like the butterfly, and its mortality makes it aesthetic. However, mortal aesthetics is elusive and unsustainable in literary narration.