浅谈《小城风光》的叙事手段

A Brief on Narrative Techniques of Ουρ Τοωυ

当代美国杰出剧作家桑顿.怀尔德的代表作《小城风光》是一部在美国家喻户晓的名剧。作者通过对小城居民静谧清新生活的描述谱写了一曲平淡生活的赞歌。其独具匠心的叙事手段是该剧的一大特点,作家打破了传统戏剧的叙事模式,巧妙地构建叙事结构,创造性地设立舞台监督,并在叙事中运用表现主义手法,这一手法对后来的剧作家产生了很大影响。

Thorton Wilder is an outstanding American playwright. His masterpiece Ουρ Τοωυ is a widely known play in America. Through the description of the harmonious life of the town, the playwright presents us a hymn of daily life. The original narrative pattern of the author is a prominent feature of the play. The author bravely breaks the narrative pattern of the traditional drama, skillfully builds up new narrative structure, originally creates a stage manager and uses expressionism in narration in the play, which has a great influence over the later playwrights.