幸存·见证·反思--《五号屠场》中作者的身份探寻

Survival,Witness and Reflection:Exploring the Author’s Identity in Slaughterhouse-Five

在库尔特·冯内古特的小说《五号屠场》中,主人公比利·皮尔格里姆挣脱了时间的羁绊,在破碎的时空中经历截然不同的人生。作者冯内古特在二战中的经历为小说人物比利的刻画提供了丰富的参考。通过运用韦恩·布斯的叙事理论对隐含作者以及文本叙述方式进行分析,可以勾勒出作者隐含的画像,得出作者的几重身份,即大轰炸的幸存者、重构历史的见证者、反战的敲钟人。在分析冯内古特的三重身份后,我们可以加深对战争的思考,关怀受战争影响的个体,并得到一些启示:人们只有正视历史,牢记战争所带来的灾难,并挖除滋生恶行的道德土壤,才能避免悲剧重演。

In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse-Five,the protagonist Billy Pilgrim breaks free from the fetters of time and has different experiences in the fractured time and space.The author’s experiences in World War II provide a rich reference for the characterization of Billy in the novel.Based on Wayne C.Booth’s narrative theory,the paper analyzes the implied author and the text.In this process,the author’s implied portrait is outlined and the author’s several identities are drawn,namely,the survivor of the bombing,the witness of reconstructing history and the anti-war bell-ringer.By analyzing Vonnegut’s triple identities,we can deepen our thinking about war,care about individuals impaired by war,and learn that only if we have a correct view of history,remember the disasters brought by war,and dig out the moral soil of evil deeds,can we prevent the tragedy from happening again.