追寻与救赎——阈限视域下《聚会》的意蕴研究

Pursuit and Redemption——Study of Meaning of“The Gathering”from Perspective of Threshold

《聚会》是一部关于回忆、伤痛、追寻的小说。作者安·恩莱特利用后现代小说的创作技巧巧妙地将阈限性延伸到故事的建构中,成就了作品的不凡和新意。在阈限视域下,透过叙述、情感、人物阈限的"聚合交融",将小说中隐含的混杂性、矛盾性、不确定性逐一呈现,折射出有关人生意蕴的省思、追寻与救赎。

＂The Gathering＂ is a novel about recollection, grief and pursuit. The author, Ann Enright, using the creative techniques of the postmodern novel, skillfully extended the threshold to the construction of the story and achieved the extraordinariness and innovation. In view of the threshold, through the ＂ag- gregation and fusion＂ of narrative, emotion, character threshold, the author presented the implicit hybrid- ity, contradictions and uncertainty, reflecting the reflection, pursuit and salvation of life meaning_