“浪子回头”中的伦理叙事——《基列家书》与《家园》的互文性解读

The Ethical Narrative in the Novels of "A Prodigal’s Return":An Interpretation of Gilead and Home from the Perspective of Intertextuality

美国当代小说家玛丽莲·罗宾逊在其代表作《基列家书》和《家园》中以不同视角对同一故事展开叙述,形成了彼此的潜文本,二者之间构成了重写性互文关系。本文将沿着'父'与'子'两条伦理主线,深入分析父子二人对情爱放纵和种族隔离两个伦理命题的认知,从而指出:在对基督教宽容伦理的认同基础上,教父对浪子过往的情爱放纵选择了谅解;然而,在种族隔离的特定历史语境下,离去是浪子杰克唯一的选择,他的漂泊行为暗含着作者对美国种族共融前景的期盼与求索。

American Contemporary Novelist Marilynne Robinson’s representative novels Gilead and Home narrate the same story from different perspectives and become the mutual hypotexts, and thence form the intertextual relationship based on rewriting. The article will discuss the ethical cognition of both 'father' and 'son' on the erotic affairs and ethnical segregation respectively. It holds that the Christian tolerance is the cognitive foundation of the father who made the choice of forgiveness toward the son’s irresponsibility;meanwhile leaving is the only choice of the prodigal son under the particular historical contexts and his wandering behavior implies the author’s expectation and pursuit of the prospect of racial harmony in U.S..