欧阳修自传的叙事技巧与哲思意蕴

Narrative Techniques and Philosophical Implications in Ouyang Xiu' Autobiography

欧阳修自传《六一居士传》是具有高超叙事技巧和深刻哲思意蕴的杰出传记文本。从中西叙事学的视野来加以分析,《六一居士传》呈现出元叙事信号功能与意象妙用的结构技巧、叙事视角中的自省与反讽、自我辩护与内心独白等诸多高超的叙事经验。而欧阳修本人在传记伦理方面的直录求实原则及其传记理论的创见"语缓意切"与"言简意深",在其自传中也得到了贯彻和实践。将之放置于世界其他国家著名传记理论下观照,欧阳修自传依然符合经典传记的种种特质,而且在世界传记理论领域,欧阳修的传记理论思想亦呈现出令人惊叹的超前性。以罗兰·巴特的理论来审视《六一居士传》作为自传丰富复杂的意义世界,更能清晰地揭示出欧阳修对于作者与自我形象文学再现关系的高妙营构。

Ouyang Xiu's autobiography is one of the outstanding biographies with superb narrative skills and profound philosophical implication. From the perspective of Chinese and Western narratology,Biography of Retired Scholar Liu Yi shows such superb narrative skills as the combination of ' metaphorical signal' function and fantastic image creation,introspection and irony in narration and self-defense and inner monologue. Ouyang Xiu's principle of truth-seeking in the biographical ethic and his inventive ideas of ' hit the mark in slow words' and ' simple words with deep meanings' in the biographical theory has been fully implemented in his autobiography. The application of Roland Barthe 's theory to the examination of Biography of Retired Scholar Liu Yi as a self-reflection of a complex inner world can more clearly reveal Ouyang Xiu's outstanding skills to handle the relationship between the author and the literary reproduction of self-image.