石黑一雄的荧幕诱惑——影视剧作与小说的关联

Screen’s Seduction of Kazuo Ishiguro: Screenwriting in Relation to Novel Writing

馆藏于美国哈利·兰塞姆档案资料中心的石黑一雄创作档案文献收录有石黑一雄迄今创作的所有影视剧作。本文通过考察石黑创作手记中的《亚瑟·梅森略传》、《伯爵夫人》、《世界上最悲伤的音乐》,以及石黑基于谷崎润一郎小说《疯癫老人日记》的电影改编等影视剧作,揭示石黑习惯先用影视创作的方式来试写其叙事和主题想法,随后才将之拼接、转化进小说的创作模式,以说明石黑的影视剧本创作对其小说创作的重要影响。

The Kazuo Ishiguro Papers in the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, houses all of Ishiguro’s screenplays written thus far. This essay explores Ishiguro’s scripts—A Profile of Arthur J Mason, The White Countess, The Saddest Music in the World, and Ishiguro’s adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s Diary of a Mad Old Man—in close relation to his major novels to reflect on the overlooked influence of Ishiguro’s own screenwriting on his novel writing. Using materials from the Ishiguro archive. It argues that Ishiguro expresses his ideas, in terms of themes, narrative voice and character relationships, through screenplays before finalizing them in novels.