作为事件的文学文本--乔纳森·萨弗兰·福尔小说《真相大白》的叙事研究

The Eventfulness of Literary Text:A Study of the Narrative Features in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated

本文运用伊格尔顿、德勒兹与小森阳一等人的“事件理论”对美国当代作家乔纳森•萨弗兰•福尔小说《真相大白》文本的事件性进行分析,指出小说采用第一人称见证叙事的手法,不断将阅读的事件性从文本中召唤出来,生成读者参与的阅读事件。同时,福尔运用后现代叙事技巧,在文本中多次探讨后现代的元历史问题,制造文本与历史的对话,再借由读者的阅读过程生成当下的事件,不断生成当代的历史。小说也是福尔试图跨越时空阻力、走出当代创伤文学见证历史的困境的一种尝试。

Based on the theory of event proposed by Eagleton,Deleuze,and Komori Yoichi,this paper attempts to analyze the eventfulness of American contemporary writer Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Everything is Illuminated,and holds that the novel adopts the technique of first-person testimonial narrative,constantly calling eventfulness out of the text,and generating the reading events with readers’ engagement.At the same time,by employing postmodern narrative techniques,Foer discusses the postmodern metahistory in the text,creating dialogues between the text and history,and generating current events as well as contemporary history over readers’ reading process.The novel also reflects Foer’s attempt to overcome the resistance of time and space to get out of the predicament of contemporary Traumatic Literature in witnessing history.