《普特迈瑟故事集》中的泥人游戏

The Golem Play in the Puttermesser Papers

辛西娅·欧芝克小说《普特迈瑟故事集》中的游戏呈现与其礼拜式文学观念相一致。泥人故事集语言游戏、宗教游戏为一体,富有强烈的历史意识与救赎意义。欧芝克既强调重复中游戏的同一性,同时又再现了泥人作为能指的分裂。泥人从保护者、救赎者符号转变为游戏者、堕落者、被救赎者,这种迁移是模仿游戏衍生出的新变化,成为逾越性别界限的文学创新。

The play narration in Cynthia Ozick’s the Puttermesser Papers follows her concept of liturgical literature.The golem story combines linguistic and religious play with a strong sense of history and redemption.Ozick emphasizes the homogeneity of the game with repetition while representing the fragmentation of the golem as a signifier.The transformation of the golem from protector and redeemer to player,corrupter,and redeemed is a new variation of the imitation game,which becomes a literary innovation of surmounting gender boundaries.