无言的悲悯与诘问——《别让我走》创作思想与伦理意识索隐

Wordless Sympathy and Questioning: on Creating thought and Origin of Ethical Consciousness in Never Let Me Go

"命运与责任"是石黑一雄文学创作的一贯主题,透过《别让我走》揭示的人体器官捐献者的命运与伦理困境,作品对克隆人"顺从"与"责任"的伦理意识书写,不免使我们联想到日本传统"效忠"文化,感受到作家对日本民族二战历史悲剧成因的无言悲悯与诘问。基于这样的认识,文章以文学伦理批评视角,透过小说特定伦理环境中克隆人的伦理选择能指,探赜形成克隆人伦理意识的文化渊源,索隐克隆人"责任"伦理表现与日本"效忠"文化之间的内在联系,理解作家与作品的深层所指。

“Fate and responsibility” is consistent theme of Kazuo Ishiguro’s literary creation. His novel Never Let Me Go reveals the fate and ethical dilemma of clones who are organ donors of human body. Through writing the ethical consciousness of “obedience” and “responsibility”of human cloning, making us think that Japanese traditional loyalty culture, feeling the writer’s wordless sympathy and questioning for tragedy causes in Japanese national history. Based on this understanding, this article aims to explore clones ’cultural origins of ethical consciousness from the perspective of ethical literary criticism. Throughing ethical choice signifer of clone in specifc environment, this paper also interpret inner relationship between “responsibility” ethics and Japanese “loyalty” culture , to understand the deep signifed of writer and works.