麦凯恩小说《转吧,这伟大的世界》的空间释读

A Spatial Interpretation of McCann's Let the Great World Spin

科伦·麦凯恩的小说《转吧,这伟大的世界》以桔瓣型结构呈现多维叙事空间,具象演绎"联结和沟通"的主题。同时,芸芸众生孤独生存、顽强抗争的纽约城市空间是阈限性的敌托邦表征空间,无不传达着向往交流、寻求救赎的吁求。此外,走钢丝景观引发的短暂"交融"、失孩族母亲的联谊构成共同体救赎空间。不同空间最终汇聚,共同表达作者对于人类基于同理心,超越一切边界,疗愈创伤、对抗困境,实现沟通与救赎的世界主义愿景。

Colum McCann＇s Let the Great World Spin illustrates the theme of ＂connection and communication＂ with the tangerine structure of multiple narrative space. Meanwhile, the urban space of New York where everybody survives alone and struggles tenaciously for communication and redemption, forms a liminal representational space of dystopia. Besides, the transient ＂Communitas＂ triggered by the tightrope - walking spectacle and the fellowship of those mothers whose sons died form the communal redemptive space. Various spaces finally converge and convey the author＇s idea that human beings had better go beyond any border on a basis of empathy to heal traumas, fight against predicaments and achieve the cosmopolitanism prospects of communication and redemption.