东野圭吾小说叙事的时间策略——基于《白夜行》与《解忧杂货店》的分析

The Narrative Strategy of Keigo Higashino's Novels —— Based on Analysis of Into The White Night and Grief Grocery Store

通过闪回、断续、并行、穿越,将"熟人"陌生化等多种手段,东野圭吾重组故事时间,让时间出现有意味的"倒错"。与此同时,又通过具体的流行文化元素和历史事件来"标记"故事在时间轴上的位置和位移。各条线索并行叙述,渐进式地汇入主体情节之中,此种时间策略使得《白夜行》、《解忧杂货店》在叙事布局上呈现出"鱼骨架"模式。时间的疏密变化,又让叙事速度与事件频率相应变动,从而不断增加故事的动力。

Keigo Higashino reconfigures the time of his stories through a variety of means such as flashbacks,intermittence,concurrence,time-travel,and making 'acquaintances' unfamiliar,creating a significative temporal 'perversion'. And also,he uses specific pop cultural elements and historical events to 'tag' the stories' positions and displacement on the timeline. Clues are narrated in a parallel manner and incrementally merge into the main plots. This strategy of time presents a 'fish skeleton' narrative structure for Into The White Night and Grief Grocery Store. The density changes of time also allow the pace of narration and frequency of incidents to change accordingly,constantly giving the stories a driving force.