石黑一雄《莫失莫忘》成长主题的时空释读

The Interpretation of the Growth in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Work Never Let Me Go from the Perspective of Time and Space

作为一位移民作家,石黑一雄因自身的经历和空间体验,对世界性问题尤其关注。他把科技革命等重大事件的探讨巧妙地隐匿于他的小说中,使小说的叙事具有独特的时代性,《莫失莫忘》就是典型之一。这不仅是一部具有反乌托邦色彩的科幻小说,还是一部讲述成长经历的小说。抛开典型的科幻情节,这部小说没有过多地关注科学的进步,而是聚焦于克隆人成长中的日常生活、社会交往与内心世界,并展示出一幅幅成长的时空图。因此,从时空角度解读《莫失莫忘》,更容易审视其中人物的成长经历。

As an immigrant writer, Kazuo Ishiguro especially pays attention to worldwide matters due to his own life and spatial experience. He skillfully explores some important events like scientific and technological revolution in his novels, enabling the narrative to be particularly of era significance. One of the examples is the novel Never Let Me Go, which is not only a dystopian science fiction, but also a Bildungsroman. Regardless of its typical science-fiction plot, this novel focuses less on the scientific improvement that allows clones to exist than on their everyday lives, their social interactions and their inner worlds, representing spatial-time pictures. Exploring the novel Never Let Me Go from the perspective of space and time, we will view its characters’ growing-up experience.