爱丽丝·门罗《欲对你说》中的人伦美学与普世关怀

The Ethical Aesthetics and Universal Concern in Alice Munro's I've Been Meaning To Tell You

本文仅就爱丽丝·门罗在1974年写作的《欲对你说》加以浅析,管窥作者可能抛却所谓的定义标签,模糊自我束缚的学术界限,内心遵从人伦美学的普世关怀,静静地呈现平凡中浓缩的生活纠葛,还片段以恒久的延续,还细微以深远的悸动,供读者静静解读。作者把平静的生活平静地铺陈在读者面前,不加干涉,精致讲述,留白于思绪之外和平朴之间。本文力图指出,《欲对你说》体现出门罗具有人伦美学的普世关怀。她暗示读者,接受多样,顺应无常,即是对生存本真的尊重,对生命缺憾的欣赏,对生活矛盾的契合。

This paper makes a brief analysis of Alice Munro's universal concern for ordinary people's life in I've Been Meaning to Tell You, a short story written in 1974. In this story, Alice Munro gave a delicate account of the entanglements of daily life in a sincere and plain way, and presented it to the readers without much of her own comment, which leaves room for the readers themselves to relish. This paper claims that the story I've Been Meaning to TellYou embodied Alice Munro's universal concern for human life, and conveyed the message that life is changeable and unpredictable and the acceptance of all this is the indication of respect for the essence of life, appreciation for regrets and adaptation to conflicts in reality.