布雷蒙的叙事逻辑理论

Bremond’s Theory of Narrative Logic

法国学者布雷蒙早年提出了“叙事可能之逻辑”的理念,后又发展为“叙事的逻辑”,认为文学作品由基本序列复合而成,借助镶嵌、并列、连接等方式展现情景的出现、采取的行动及达到的结果。叙事逻辑将叙事的基本序列确定为“可能、过程、结果”等三个功能,对应于故事中事物变化过程的三个必经阶段。该叙事逻辑理论具有相当的开创性,为考察文学文本提供了新的视角。对作品《往事烟云》的分析证明,这一理论基本反映了文学作品的普通叙事逻辑。

French scholar Bremond put forward the idea of“the logic of narrative possibility”in his early years,and later developed into“logic of narrative”.He believed that literary works were composed of basic sequences,in which showed the emergence of scenarios,actions and results by means of mosaic,juxtaposition,and connection.The narrative logic determines the basic sequence of the narrative as three functions:“possible,process,and result”,which correspond to the three necessary stages of the changing process of things in the story.This theory of narrative logic is quite ground breaking and provides a new perspective for examining literary texts.An analysis of the work Tout est passési vite proves that this theory basically reflects the general narrative logic of literary works.