石黑一雄《远山淡影》中的母亲形象解读

An Analysis of Motherhood in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “A Pale View of Hills”

英籍日裔作家石黑一雄的早期作品《远山淡影》展现了多位母亲形象:囿于厨房的传统母亲藤原太太,为实现梦想而未尽母职的单亲妈妈佐知子,对将为人母充满怀疑和焦虑的准妈妈悦子,以及饱受丧女之痛的中年母亲悦子。多元的母亲形象折射出战争和家庭给妇女和儿童带来的伤痛以及父母亲与成年子女之间的冲突与谅解,传递了作家对普通人命运的关注和悲悯之情。

Kazuo Ishiguro creates a group of mothers in his early work “A Pale View of Hills”: traditional mother Mrs. Fujiwara, worried mother-to-be Etsuko, single mother Sachiko and painful middle-aged mother Etsuko. Various mother images present the trauma brought to women and children by the war and the family and the conflicts and understanding between parents and adult children, expressing the writer’s concern and compassion on ordinary people.