《夜色温柔》中的父亲伦理叙事

Father ethics and its narration in Tender Is the Night

菲茨杰拉德的小说《夜色温柔》对父亲伦理进行了复杂的书写。通过老一辈父亲不在场与在场的叙事安排,小说暗示了传统父亲伦理消亡、伦理禁忌遭到挑战的伦理变迁。年轻一代父亲的代表人物迪克·戴弗是该变化的直接参与者,经历斯芬克斯因子的交锋,与妮柯儿、罗丝玛丽形成"父女"乱伦关系,构成父亲伦理线上的主要伦理结。小说的结构安排从空间、视角转换等方面立体、流动地再现了上述伦理关系。针对此种伦理状态,作者试图通过人物的结局来表达自己的伦理选择,即以逃离的方式达成向传统伦理价值的回归。

Fitzgerald offers a complicated writing of father ethics in his novel Tender Is the Night. By arranging in narration the absence and presence of two older-generation fathers,the novel indicates the death of traditional father ethics and the challenges that confront ethical taboos. As the representative of the younger-generation father,Dick Diver is directly involved in the change.He experiences the conflict of Sphinx factor,and eventually forms incestual father-daughter relationships with Nicole and Rosemary,thus forming the major ethical complex on the ethical line of father ethics. The structure of the novel provides a three-dimentional and developing presentation of this ehtical relation through narrative space and interchanging perspectives. Faced with this ethical state,the author tries to express his ethical choice via the escape that comes eventually to the characters; the escaping itself constitutes a return to the traditional ethical values.