摘要
格雷厄姆·斯威夫特的第二部小说《羽毛球》是主人公普伦蒂斯的成长叙事。30过头的普伦蒂斯内心焦躁、压力重重,人际关系一团糟。他的症结其实是来自于弱小的“自为存在”与凝视的对抗。少年时期的他,因成功的父亲而遭遇过多的凝视,“自我”没有完形;工作中来自上司的权力凝视使他惴惴不安。他不愿成为“为他的存在”,但又没有实现“自为存在”的超越,自我主体没有建构起来,后来,他成了“权力凝视者”,主体建构过程才得以完成。斯威夫特通过普伦蒂斯的经历揭示了凝视对人存在的功能性意义,以及权力裹挟下的凝视对人生存的影响。
Graham Swift’s second novel Shuttlecock is a narrative of the growth of the protagonist Prentis,who is in his thirties,anxious and stressed,and in a mess of interpersonal relations. It can be found that his crux actually comes from the confrontation between his weak “being-for-itself”and gaze. When he is a teenager,he suffers excessive gaze because of his successful father. His “ego-ideal”is not completed. At work the power gaze from his boss makes him uneasy and anxious. He doesn’t want to be the “being-for-others”,but he hasn’t achieved the transcendence of the “being-for-itself”. His subjectivity can’t be constructed,and the change in his identity as a power gazer contributes to his subject construction. Through Prentis’ experience,Swift reveals the functional significance of gaze on human existence,and the influence of gaze under the influence of power on human survival.
作者
王作伟
WANG Zuowei(College of Foreign Languages and Literature,Fudan University,Shanghai 200433,China;College of Foreign Languages and Literature,Hexi University,Zhangye 734000,China)
出处
《外文研究》
2023年第1期66-71,108,共7页
Foreign Studies
