生成的孽缘——解读艾丽丝·门罗小说《机缘》

The Doomed Love——Analysis of Alice Munro’s Chance

选自诺贝尔文学奖得主艾丽斯·门罗的代表作品《逃离》的短篇小说《机缘》,讲述了朱丽叶如何投入到列车上邂逅的埃里克怀抱中的故事。用法国后现代主义哲学家德勒兹关于生成的思想解读小说,发现正在研读古典文学的朱丽叶被其中的浪漫故事所吸引而生成了其中的角色。她学业不精,只思表面浪漫,未想背后灾难,无法逃脱命运的掌控,为因自己一时的冷漠致他人于轻生而付出沉重代价。一系列机缘巧合的后面是作者的大智慧:人性的弱点和知识的无穷使她注定无法逃脱命运的安排。

The story, Chance, taken from Runaway, masterpiece of Alice Munro, winner of Nobel Prize of Literature, tells of how Juliet, who runs into Eric on the train, becomes his lover. Applying the thought of becoming, concept of Delueze, French postmodernist philosopher, we have come to the conclusion that Juliet, who is reading classics, fascinated by the superficial romance of love she sees, fails to notice the catastrophe lying beneath, and is doomed to answer for her whimsical apathy of the man supposed to commit suicide. The series of coincidences conceals the wisdom of the writer conveying to us: human weakness together with inexhaustible knowledge betrays her running away from her destiny.