生命的探索与成长——论艾丽丝·门罗《红裙子1946》的叙事特质

Life Exploration and Growth——On Alice Munro's Narrative Features in “Red Dress-1946”

加拿大女作家艾丽丝·门罗早期短篇小说《红裙子1946》对于现实世界的关注、对于人物心理的刻画、对于日常生活细节化的真实描写展现出作家鲜明的现实主义叙事特质。通过线性结构下的个性化叙事、第一人称视角下的心理现实主义叙事、写实与虚构之间的自我叙事三个视角切入,分析作品的现实主义叙事特征,并揭示文本如何透过叙事手法表现现实世界中人的生存困境与成长历程,反映现代社会的生活状况,有助于把握门罗的创作艺术,对于认识作家创作的发展与变化具有重要意义。

The Canadian writer and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro s early story“Red Dress-1946”represents the writer s obvious realistic narrative features via its focus on the real world,the illustration of character s psychology and the description of details in daily life.From the three perspectives of personal narration in lineal structure,psychological realistic narration from a first-person angle,self-narration between reality and fiction,the paper tries to analyze the text s realistic narrative features,and reveal how it shows the characters dilemma of living and growing up in real worldand eflects the living conditions in modern society through narrative techniques,which can help us grasp Munro s creative art and is significant for the understanding of the development and changes in her writing.