空间维度下《黑暗前的夏天》主题思想研究

On the Theme of The Summer before the Dark from Spatial Dimension

莱辛后期创作了一系列空间小说,《黑暗前的夏天》颇具代表性,作品刻画了偏离日常生活的异质空间,因其叠合现实与梦境而具差异性和颠覆性。从空间维度解读作品主题,可以看到空间在凯特自我身份认同、疏离社会规训、获致自我整体性过程中发挥了关键作用。"黑暗"是凯特领悟社会规范对自我规训进而丧失主体性的异质空间。"海豹之梦"则是凯特抗拒规训、找寻自我整体性的具象表征。最后作品折射出苏菲主义对莱辛思想的影响。

Doris Lessing created a series of space fiction in her later period. Among them the Summer before the Dark is the representative. It depicts two heterotopias in reality and dream which overlapping and echoing with each other. Interpreting the work’s theme from spatial dimension, we can find space plays a key role in Kate’s search for self-identity, the alienation of social discipline and attaining self wholeness. The novel also reflects Sufism’s influence on Lessing’s thought. The individual and the society are not in the position of binary opposition. He as a man achieving self-wholeness, shoulders responsibility to the world. It shares connecting and depending wholeness among the individual, the society and the cosmos.