《荒原与人》:叙述可靠性与伦理情怀

The Wasteland and Man:Narrative Reliability and Ethical Feelings

话剧《荒原与人》属典型的第一人称回顾性叙述,叙述自我与经验自我之间形成戏剧张力。该剧还运用了多重聚焦、视角越界、套层叙述等多种叙述策略,是当代戏剧最为复杂微妙的叙事文本之一。作者对叙述策略的选择是带有伦理意义的行为。叙述人在整体可靠的叙述中,出现局部的不可靠,这是"失落的一代"怀疑精神的表征,也折射出叙述人灵魂的复杂性。剧中隐含着作者对生命的悲悯,对有过失甚至有罪之人的叹息,而这正是叙事伦理的题中应有之意。

The wasteland and man is a typical first-person retrospective narration.There is a dramatic tension between narrative-self and experiential-self.The play also adopts multiple focusing,perspective crossing and multiple narrative strategies.It is one of the most complex and subtle narrative texts in contemporary drama.The author's choice of narrative strategy is an ethical behavior.In the completely reliable narration,the narrator appears partial unreliability,which is a token of the skeptical spirit of the"lost generation",also reflects the complexity of the narrator's soul.The play is full of the author's sympathy for life and sighs for those who are fault or even guilty,which is the proper meaning of narrative ethics.