后基督时代的沉默他者——评论《迈克尔·K的生活与时代》

Life & Times of Michael K: The silent Other in post-Christian era

在小说《迈克尔·K的生活与时代》中,库切采用沉默的他者形象,展示了南非被边缘化个体在后基督时代的生存状态以及抵抗方式,表现出作者在揭示人类社会的残忍暴力、相互隔绝、彼此仇恨、愚昧自欺,检视西方文明理性正义本质、批判其道德伦理的同时,为遭受压迫和蹂躏的边缘化他者弱势群体仗义言说,对南非人民在社会历史中所经受的创伤、南非沉重的历史、权力话语、规训与惩罚等话题进行深刻反思。

J. M. Coetzee demonstrates by adopting the image of the silent Other in the novel Life & Times of Michael K the living conditions and ways of resistance of the marginalized individuals in South Africa. By disclosing the wickedness of human society such as brutal violence, mutual estrangement and hatred and stupid self-deceit, revealing the nature of 'rational justice' in western civilization and criticizing the concept of the western morality and ethics, he speaks for the marginalized Other, the disadvantageous who are outrageously oppressed and exploited and reflects on the issues such as the trauma of South Africans in history, the suffocating history in South Africa, power of discourse, discipline and punishment in South Africa.