暴力与反抗——《别让我走》中空间书写与物叙事

Violence and Resistance:Space Writing and “Thing” Narrative in Never Let Me Go

近年来学界对石黑一雄的第六部小说《别让我走》从小说中物叙事与情感、记忆以及背后的权力关系展开分析,丰富了小说的主题阐释。不过,物的描写不仅仅是情感的载体,更是克隆人自我反抗的表现。法国社会学家布迪厄提出符号暴力这一概念,可用于分析小说中物叙事与故事空间的关系,揭示背后暴力与反抗的内涵。小说的故事空间一面具有压迫意味,另一方面也给克隆人提供反抗的机会。物的获得是克隆人自我精神的延展,是一种隐形反抗。物以自我保存的形式对抗着空间符号暴力的统治,以物性的方式传递着精神的强大。

Never Let Me Go,the sixth novel of Kazuo Ishiguro,has received a lot of attention in recent years on"thing"narrative in terms of memory,personal emotion and power relationship.Those analyses enrich the understanding of the novel’s theme.However,"thing"narrative is not only the reflection of characters’emotion,but also the embodiment of resistance.The paper will adopt French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence to analyze the relationship of"thing"narrative and space writing,so as to explore the theme of violence and resistance in deep structure.Story space in the novel implicitly oppresses clone students ruthlessly,and meanwhile provides them a chance to resist oppression.Things obtained in exchange are the symbols of Clone’s spirit,and also a kind of resistance,and themselves can be regarded as a certain form of defiance both physically and spiritually.