摘要
马丁·艾米斯的创伤小说有一个共同主题就是爱情。创伤和爱情形成一种凄美的耦合,暗示着爱情与痛苦的紧密相伴,生命和死亡、在场和缺失、真实和虚幻在一个阈限空间内密集存在。创伤与爱情的交织、个体与集体的契合,使艾米斯的小说创作颠覆了传统文类的书写模式,背离了道德主题的表现常规;自恋与分离的连接、自我与他者的融合,揭示出暴力与反抗的行为动机,还原了人物自我分裂的双重本性。小说中的叙述者既是犯罪者和受害者,又是幸存者和见证人。从《时间之箭》中的大屠杀,经过《夜车》中的离奇死亡,到《会客房》中的西伯利亚集中营,艾米斯借助叙述者之口,追踪不为人知的心酸往事、救赎麻木与忏悔的心灵以及解脱已知与未知之间的困惑,在支离破碎的故事讲述中进行漫游式的探索,在大量的扩张之后得以最终实现对本真自我的寻求。
In Martin Amis＇s trauma novels, love is a common motif. The cou- pling of trauma and romance suggests the intimacy between love and pain, usually in a liminal space simultaneously harboring life and bereavement, presence and absence, the real and the spectral. Such interweaving of trauma and romance, of the individual and the collective, effectively subverts traditional genres and deviates from the conventional expression of moral themes. Through the fusion of narcissism and dissociation, of the self and the other, Amis reveals the motive behind behavioral patterns of violence and resistance, and through such characterization exposes the duality of human nature. The narrators are not only perpetrators and victims of their own crimes, but also survivors and witnesses. From the Holocaust in Time＇s Arrow （1991）, through suspicious death in Night Train （1997）, to the Siberian slave camps in House of Meetings （2007）, Amis explores these characters＇ wandering quest for self through their fragmented story-telling haunted by past events, and traces their struggles between knowing and unknowing before ultimately achieving authenticity.
出处
《当代外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2017年第2期104-111,共8页
Contemporary Foreign Literature
