巴恩斯《唯一的故事》中的叙事策略与性别伦理

The Narrative Strategy and Gender Ethics in Barnes' The Only Story

朱利安·巴恩斯的最新力作《唯一的故事》将性别伦理叙事作为作品书写和呈现的焦点,关注和思考背后隐含的文化与伦理意义。叙事策略与性别伦理之间存在着错综复杂的关系:一方面非线性叙事并置回忆与现实、过去与现在,彰显了多元文化冲突背后对传统性别伦理观念的反叛;另一方面,多重叙述声音成为作家凸显女性受难史以及在传统性别伦理的认同中构建男性气概的主要方式;叙述人称的转换还有助于还原叙述者伦理选择背后的真实形象。巴恩斯在《唯一的故事》中试图将性别伦理叙事还原于1960年至1970年间英国的历史语境,揭示了英国社会新旧伦理价值观的转变、理想两性模式的变迁及其社会发展的时代特征。

Julian Barnes' latest masterpiece, The Only Story, takes the gender ethics narrative as the focus of its writing and presentation, paying attention to and contemplating the cultural and ethical implications behind it. There is a complex relationship between narrative strategies and gender ethics in the novel. On the one hand, non-linear narrative juxtaposes memories with reality, past and present, highlighting the rebellion against traditional gender ethics behind multicultural conflicts;On the other hand, multiple narrative voices have become a may way for writer to highlight the history of women's suffering and construct masculinity in the recognition of traditional gender ethics. In addition, the transformation narrative person helps to restore the true image behind the narrator's ethical choices. In The Only Story, Barnes tries to restore the narrative of gender ethics to the historical context of Britain between 1960 and 1970,revealing the transformation of old and new ethical values in British society, the transformation of ideal gender models, and the characteristics of the times in social development.