论德拉布尔《红王妃》中的多重叙述声音

Approaching the Multilayered Narrative Voices in Margaret Drabble’s The Red Queen

英国作家玛格丽特·德拉布尔的创作经由现实主义"传统之尾"向后现代主义过渡。她对全球化的关注及实验的后现代元叙事极大地丰富了其新世纪以来的文学写作。在《红王妃》中,各式各样的叙事人物与穿插交叠的多重叙述声音古今交融,人魂对话。多声部的叙事策略有力地提升了作品的内涵和表现张力,更引发读者对人生苦难与生命追求等具有普遍性问题的哲思。

While her earlier work is more realist and traditional, the British author Margaret Drabble’s later writing demonstrates a postmodern turn. Her work in the new millennium are informed by her attention to globalization and experimental postmodern meta-narrative. The Red Queen establishes a dialogue between the past and present, human and spirit, through a variety of narrators and overlapping, multilayered narrative voices. The polyphonic narrative voices contribute to a regeneration of meanings, and a deepening of the textual connotations and tensions. In this manner, the fiction draws readers’ attention to such universal, philosophical questions of mankind as life and suffering regardless of time.