从《无尽长日》看巴里笔下的冷幽默叙事

Narrative of Cold Humor in Sebastian Barry's Days Without End

在《无尽长日》里,巴里的他损性冷幽默以挖苦、嘲弄和讽刺为主要特征,营造出诙谐和耐人寻味的意境,真实再现了美国印第安人战争和南北战争的人间百态和世态炎凉。此外,其自损性冷幽默从自责、自嘲和自贬的角度,建构了小说主题表述的合理性、逻辑性和正义性。巴里还从类比、对比和臆想的角度展示小说中的黑色冷幽默,揭示了人性在不同语境里的演绎,从而显示人性被颠覆后的个人和社会悲剧。巴里把冷幽默之冷渗透到小说的各个角落,凸显出其对爱尔兰文学叙事传统的继承和创新。

In Days Without End, Sebastian Barry＇s depreciative humor, characterized by sarcasm, ridicule and irony, vividly captures the daily affairs of the human world and the inconsistency of human relations. In addition, his humor of self-depreciation, by means of self-blame, self-ridicule and self-despise, demonstrates the rationality, logic and justice of the novel＇s theme. Barry presents the blackness and coldness of his humor from the viewpoint of analogy, contrast and fantasy, which reveals the variation of human nature in different contexts, and unveils the individual and social tragedies after human nature is reversed. With this cold humor seeping from every pore of the novel, Barry maximizes his creative inheritance of the narrative tradition of Irish literature.