德国当代家族小说的多元叙事

A study of multiple narratives in contemporary German family novels

德国当代家族小说书写历史,观照现实,已然引发人们对社会、历史、文化、经济和政治的思考。此类小说中叙事者的个体经历、家族故事与社会历史紧密相关。家族遗留的文献资料与社会历史文献记载均是回忆的发动机;个体的“小”历史与社会的“大”历史在叙事过程中相互交织;作者依据小说的叙事原则通过时间、空间的设置和人物的塑造以及故事情节的安排,弥补了文献记载之局限性,让文学叙写更完整也更合理。

The contemporary German family novels have already caused people to think about society,history,culture,economy and politics by writing history and observing reality.The narrator’s personal experience and family stories in such novels are closely related to social history.Family documents or social history documents are the engine of memory;The“small”history of the individual and the“big”history of the society are intertwined in the narration;Holding the narrative principles of the novel,the author compensates for the limitations of literature by shaping characters in time and space and plot design-the behavior converts the literary description more complete and reasonable.