从《别让我走》到《克拉拉与太阳》——石黑一雄的非人类叙事及其伦理启迪

人工智能技术是石黑一雄近年来小说关注的一个重要内容。从小说《别让我走》到《克拉拉与太阳》,作家始终在探讨一个核心问题,即“克隆人或机器人究竟是人类还是‘非人类’”抑或说“究竟什么是人的本质问题”。循着这一核心问题的探究,可以进一步剖析石黑一雄小说独特的非人类叙事特征,进而揭示作家潜藏其后的对于人类利用人工智能技术所引起的深刻道德反思与伦理启迪。

The artificial intelligence technology is an important issue Kazuo Ishiguro pays close attention to in his fiction of recent years.From Never Let Me Go to Klara and the Sun,Kazuo Ishiguro all along explores a core issue,namely,"is the cloned man or android on earth the human or nonhuman?Or what on earth is the human nature?"Following the probe into the essential question above,the unique characteristics of the nonhuman narrative and the moral reflection or ethical edification hidden in the narrativeare further revealed.