门罗小说《播弄》的叙事时间及叙事审美

Narrative Time and Narrative Aesthetics of Monroe's“Tricks”

加拿大短篇小说巨匠门罗以擅长书写女性叙事荣获2013年诺贝尔文学奖。《播弄》是门罗的代表性短篇小说之一,讲述一对“陌生”恋人因命运的播弄,恋情无法修成正果的悲伤爱情故事。叙事策略是这篇小说的特色所在,尤其是叙事时间是该小说的点睛之笔。运用热奈特的叙事时间理论,从时序、时距、频率方面探讨小说《播弄》的叙事时间及叙事审美艺术,以期更好地理清门罗的写作思路,欣赏作者安排叙事时间的策略与技巧。

As a master of Canadian short stories,Alice Munro won Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 for her exquisite writing skills in female narration.“Tricks”is one of her representative short stories,telling a sad love story about a couple of“strange”lovers who cannot spend the rest of their lives together because of the trick of the fate.Narrative strategy is a major feature of the novel,especially the narrative time and it is the finishing touch of the novel.This paper aims to employ Genette's narrative time theory to explore the narrative time and narrative aesthetic art of Monroe's“Tricks”from three aspects:time sequence,time distance and frequency,so as to help readers better understand Monroe's writing ideas,appreciate the strategies and skills of the author's narrative time.