悸动背后:《洛丽塔》中亨伯特的心理特征

Behind the Throb: Humbert's Psychological Characteristics in Lolita

弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫是20世纪美国著名的俄裔小说家。其代表作《洛丽塔》在法国一出版,便因作品主题的争议性成为各界关注的焦点。小说在美国出版后,也声名遐迩,取得了巨大的商业成功。《洛丽塔》向我们讲述了一位风流倜傥的中年鳏夫亨伯特,与其时年仅十二岁的继女洛丽塔的畸恋故事。作品中杂糅的戏仿、互文、拼贴等现代主义小说的经典元素,引来许多评论家从不同角度进行探讨。本文则聚焦于亨伯特的心理特征,在细读文本的基础上,探析其内心,揭开其悸动的面纱,从而揭示出亨伯特儿童时代的创伤以及由创伤记忆导致的变态情欲心理,是其试图以童话为自己正言,却最终毁灭的根源所在。

Vladimir Nabokov is a well-known Russian-American novelist in the 20th century.As his masterpiece,Lolita has gained great attention upon its publication.It tells an unethical love story between Humbert,a middle-aged widower and his twelve year old step-daughter Lolita.The classic elements of modernist novels,such as parody,intertextuality,collage and so on,have attracted many critics to discuss from different angles.Focusing on the psychological characteristics of Humbert,on the basis of close-reading the text,Humbert's psychological features are analyzed,his throb is disclosed.It is found that the trauma of Humbert's childhood and the abnormal sensual psychology caused by the traumatic memory are the root of his attempt to take fairy tales as his own words but eventually cause his doom.