摘要
当代英国小说在回望与实验中不断反思现实主义书写的价值。《转折》是作家蕾切尔·卡斯克探索叙述与现实关系的三部曲之一。本文将小说置于当代英国“后真相”的语境中加以解读,考察作家如何聚焦公共生活,揭示真实与共识的关系。小说以独特的文学策略审视了共识瓦解的社会空间和心理空间,揭示出真相的流转过程。小说摒弃追问共识的伤感主义倾向,以“去情节化”演绎新的共识路向,彰显个体叙事的不可化约性,还表达了文学叙述的认识与疗愈价值。小说借助美学形式的探索呈现出对英国社会共识问题的新思考,体现了当代现实主义书写的潜能。
The use of realism is the critical concern of twenty-first-century British novel writing in its retrospection and experimentation.Transit,one of Rachel Cusk's Trilogy,explores the entanglements between narration and truth.By interpreting the novel within the context of“post-truth”in contemporary Britain,it can be found that the author raises questions about truth and consensus in public life.Through innovative narrative modes,the novel reworks the social and psychological spaces with disintegrated consensus and reveals the path of dynamic truth.Turning away from the sentimentalism in pursuing consensus,the novel dramatize an alternative approach by rejecting“emplotment”.It celebrates the irreducibility of individual narrative,as well as the heuristic and therapeutic value of literary narrative.This novel expands the discussion of consensus in contemporary Britain with aesthetic innovation,demonstrating the vitality of realistic writing.
