锐利而陌生的丧恸--狄迪恩非虚构作品《奇想之年》修辞解读

Sharp and Strange Mourning:A Rhetorical Interpretation of Joan Didion’s Nonfiction Work The Year of Magical Thinking

《奇想之年》是美国作家狄迪恩的非虚构经典之作,作品讲述了作者丈夫约翰突发冠心病去世后自己陷入丧恸之中的情感历程。作品采用碎片化的叙述、时空交织的立体结构、情感的陌生化、以点带面的叙述视野等修辞手段将丧恸表现的锐利而陌生,具有很高的艺术性和可读性。

The Year of Magical Thinking a non-fictional classic by American writer Joan Didion.It tells the story of her emotional process of falling into mourning after his husband John died of coronary heart disease.By adopting the following rhetorical devices fragmented narration,dimensional structure of space-time interweaving,defamiliarization of emotion,and narrative vision from point to area,the author expresses her mourning sharply and strangely.It is high⁃ly readable and artistic.