对反人类罪行的回应及后人类视野中叙事学的有限性

Responses to Crimes Against Humanity and the Limits of Narratology in a Post-Human Horizon

在这篇论文里,我将探究丹·帕基斯(Dan Pagis)与保罗·策兰(Paul Celan)的诗歌。我认为这些诗歌超越了叙事的范围,这并不仅仅因为它们是诗歌,而非散文;更重要的是这些诗歌作为反人类罪行的回应,在主题上与仇恨和宽恕的问题相关联。

In this paper I examine poems by Dan Pagis and Paul Celan.I argue that these poems are beyond narrative not just because they are poems,not prose for narratology knows how to explain poetry too.Yet more important,these poems are thematically related to questions of resentment and forgiveness in response to crimes against humanity.The paper exemplifies that narratology is a science based on the institution of the subject while the poems that I examine function in a post-human horizon that renders subjectivity complicated or impossible.The desire to produce a life-story that causes the subject to be whole again is foreign to texts that relate to crimes against humanity because those texts fight against known literary and psychoanalytical structures and architecture.The dominant motifs and themes in the poems stretch narrative theory to its limits to the point that a full understanding of the poems emerges beyond narrative and in relation to philosophical understandings of biopolitics,bare life,response,and responsibility.I explain Georges Bataille’s argument against narrative architecture at the same time that I explore the concept of bare life that emerges from both the philosophies of Foucault and Agamben.At this final stage I give an interpretation of the poems that shows how they address and affect bare life without reciprocating in violence and without becoming transcendental.