约瑟夫·康拉德海洋背景小说解读——以创伤叙事理论为视角

An Interpretation of Joseph Conrad’s Marine Novels——From the Perspective of Trauma Narrative

约瑟夫·康拉德以其亲身的航海经历为源泉创作了一系列以海洋为背景的作品。这些作品中人物的共同点就是经历过生存危机或死亡危机,而这些危机给作品中的个体和集体带来了噩梦般的创伤。以创伤叙事理论对康拉德海洋小说中的海员个体和海员集体进行分析,比较了各自的疗伤方式和结果,进而为康拉德作品解读提供另一种视角。

Joseph Conrad created a series of works based on the sea with his personal sailing experiences.What the characters in these works have in common is that they experienced a crisis of survival or death.These crises brought nightmare wounds to individuals and groups in the works.Based on the theory of trauma narrative,this paper analyzes the individual and collective of the seamen in Conrad’s marine novels,and compares their healing methods and results,thus providing another perspective for the interpretation of Conrad’s works.