证词的价值:约翰·布朗的《罗伯特·布林科自传》和弗朗西斯·特罗洛普的《迈克尔·阿姆斯特朗》

The Value of Testimony:John Brown's Memoir of Robert Blincoe and Frances Trollope's Michael Armstrong

本文对约翰·布朗的《罗伯特·布林科自传》和弗朗西斯·特罗洛普的《迈克尔·阿姆斯特朗》这两个文本进行个案研究,反思19世纪英国劳工运动问题,进而探讨"经验"、"真理"、政治策略与叙事策略之间的关系,说明"倘若不是为了信仰真理,而仅仅是为了理解真理,真理就不堪言说"。

Based on the case study of two texts-Memoir of Robert Blincoe and Michael Armstrong,this article has first made a reflection on the British Labor Movement of the 19th Century and then,a further study of the values of experience,truth and political and narrative strategy in order to attest that'Truth can never be told so as to be understood,and not to be believed.'