《尤利西斯》中的安排者

The Arranger in Ulysses

'安排者'是'乔学'传统中的核心概念,由大卫·海曼提出,是指《尤利西斯》中处于隐含作者和叙事者之间的一个具有形式功能的角色。乔学家休·肯纳把这个概念更具穿透力地应用于《尤利西斯》的结构分析。本文是对休·肯纳剖解安排者在《尤利西斯》中担当的角色及其连锁叙述要素的形式功能所做的再观察。本文的结论是,安排者是《尤利西斯》在结构与母题上和《奥德赛》相对照的产物,是《奥德赛》中雅典娜的变体;他不化身,也没有具身性,是叙事者自我戏剧化到《尤利西斯》的故事世界,就像没有时空限制的摄影机镜头,无往不在地与人物共同排演都柏林人的生活场景,监控人物的各行其是,并通过自身连锁叙述要素的形式功能把人物即时经验与叙述相叠加,以此安排了布鲁姆与斯蒂芬这对精神父子的相遇。

First used by David Hayman,the term'Arranger'in Ulysses refers to the role of the shaping function between the implied author and the narrator.The Joycean scholar Hugh Kenner penetratingly applied this term to analyzing the narrative structure of Ulysses.On the basis of a close reading of Ulysses and the relative observations by Hugh Kenner,this essay reexamines the role performed by the arranger in the narrative texture of Ulysses and concludes that just like a camera lens beyond the time-space boundary,the arranger,as the role dramatized by the narrator itself into the fictional world of Ulysses,is performing the scenes of Dublin life together with the characters,observing the actions of the characters,and arranging the encounter of the protagonists.