石黑一雄《长日留痕》的创伤书写

Trauma Writing of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day

《长日留痕》是当代日裔英籍作家石黑一雄的长篇代表作。小说将管家史蒂文斯在英国西部6天的旅行经历以日记体的形式叙述。石黑一雄在小说中再现简朴、含蓄与典雅的叙事风格,以主人公史蒂文斯的主体视角探寻历史事件背后的个人命运,通过回忆叙事的方式对他职业精神、道德境界的价值追求予以深刻拷问,书写了个人经历所造成的个体创伤和大英帝国衰落现实中的集体创伤。石黑一雄让历史与未来、回忆与现实、府邸与乡村等进行对话,运用矛盾性的叙事策略和精湛巧妙的文字表达为人们审视历史创伤和寻找自我价值提供了独特的文学视角。

The Remains of the Day is the representative work of Kazuo Ishiguro,a contemporary British writer of Japanese descent.The novel,in diary form,tells the story of Stevens,the butler,on a six-day trip to the West of England.In his novel,Kazuo Ishiguro reproduces a simple,implicit and elegant narrative style,explores the personal fate behind historical events from the main perspective of the protagonist Stevens,and deeply interrogated his professional spirit and moral value pursuit through recalling narrative methods,writing about the individual trauma caused by personal experiences and the collective trauma in the reality of the decline of the British Empire.Kazuo Ishiguro makes a dialogue between history and future,memory and reality,mansion and countryside,etc.He uses contradictory narrative strategies and exquisite text expression to provide a unique literary perspective for people to examine historical trauma and find self-value.