情感与记忆的形塑——论《被掩埋的巨人》中的记忆书写

Emotion and the Reconfiguration of Memory:On the Representation of Memory in The Buried Giant

石黑一雄的《被掩埋的巨人》围绕一对年老夫妇的寻子之旅展开叙述,从个体和集体记忆两个层面展现了创伤性情感如何触发、影响,甚至限定记忆的形塑,而建构的记忆又如何一方面抚平情感的历史伤痛,另一方面却可能遭到贪欲的滥用,为新一轮的暴力铺平道路。历史的背叛所引发的个体或集体创伤体验以碎片的形式不断强行介入当下,促发了记忆;身体的空间移动促进了片段式记忆的碰撞与交流,个体或集体记忆在这个过程中不断修正和塑造;情感在个体的过去和现在,以及跨越代际之间的传递使得个体或集体身份得到认同。在情感参与记忆形塑的整个过程中,二者处于相互触发刺激,又彼此交流协商的动态中,积聚的创伤性情感裹挟着个体奔向一个趋于平衡的点(历史的正义),但这种平衡可能很快又被打破。

Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant revolves around an old couple’s search for their son,and shows how traumatic emotions trigger,affect,and even limit the reconfiguration of memory on two levels:individual and collective memory.On the one hand,constructed memory can heal the historical pain of emotion,on the other hand,it may be abused by greed,paving the way for violence.The individual or collective traumatic experience caused by the historical betrayal is constantly and forcibly involved in the present in the form of fragments,which promotes memory;the spatial movement of the body promotes the collision and communication of fragment memories,and in this process the individual or collective memory is constantly modified and shaped;the transmission of emotion in the past and present of individuals,as well as across generations,makes individual or collective identity recognized.In the whole process of emotion participating in memory construction,the two are in the dynamic of triggering and stimulating each other,and communicating and negotiating with each other.The accumulated traumatic emotion forces the individual to a balanced point(historical justice),but this balance may soon be broken.