被压抑的“小人物”之声:论果戈理小说《外套》的听觉叙事

The Suppressed Voice of the “Little Man”: On Auditory Narration of Gogol’s Novel The Overcoat

听觉叙事是近年来文学研究的前沿课题。开展对听觉叙事的专门研究,既是对当今社会视听失衡现状的理论反拨,也是人文学科“听觉转向”的逻辑必然。听觉叙事概念提出后,“重听”经典成为叙事研究的一项新任务。果戈理的经典作品《外套》蕴含丰富的声音景观,其听觉叙事一方面与塑造人物形象相关,另一方面直指文本的深层寓意。从听觉叙事角度重新解读这部经典之作,有利于针砭以往研究“失聪”的痼疾,聆察作品内蕴的听觉芬芳。

Auditory narrative has been in the forefront of literary research in recent years. The special study of auditory narrative is not only a theoretical counterpoint to the imbalance of audiovisuality in today’s society, but also a logical necessity of the “auditory turn” in the humanities. “Re-listening” to the classics has become a new task for narrative studies since the concept of auditory narrative was proposed. Gogol’s classic work The Overcoat contains a rich soundscape, and its aural narrative is related to the portrayal of characters on the one hand, and refers to the deeper moral meaning of the text on the other. The reinterpretation of the classic work from the perspective of auditory narrative is helpful to address the chronic problem of “deafness” in previous studies and to auscultize carefully to the aural fragrance embedded in the work.