摘要
动因是石黑一雄所有小说中的一个重要议题。本文认为,石黑一雄的小说《克拉拉与太阳》比对了两个动因幻景。第一个是如同机器的计算型模式,由人工智能机器人克拉拉演示,这部分,还有克拉拉的故事,与柏拉图的洞穴寓言有异曲同工之处。第二个是更为人类的媒介幻景,由汉娜·阿伦特的行动说明交代得一清二楚。两个幻景围绕小说中一个重要议题即有关宽恕的观念和实践发生冲突。我觉得,对于宽恕的关注及其与动因形式的联系推动了石黑一雄小说中的一个重要主题。他先前的小说表明,我们都被困在自己所作的决定之中,这一点在《被掩埋的巨人》里最为有力地呈现为一个报复性种族灭绝暴行的连环套。《克拉拉与太阳》中的宽恕观念开启了逃脱此套的机会。
Agency is a central issue in all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction. This article argues that Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun contrasts two visions of agency. The first is a machine-like, algorithmic model, demonstrated by the artificial intelligence robot Klara: this, as well as Klara’s story, parallels Plato’s allegory of the Cave. The second is a more human vision of agency which is clarified by Hannah Arendt’s account of action. Both visions collide over a key issue in the novel, the idea and practice of forgiveness. I argue that this focus on forgiveness and its relation to forms of agency advance a key issue in Ishiguro’s fiction. His previous novels suggest that we are trapped in the decisions we have made: in The Buried Giant, this is presented most forcefully in suggesting a chain of retributive genocidal atrocities. The concept of forgiveness in Klara and the Sun begins to offer an escape from that chain.
作者
罗伯特·伊格尔斯通
Robert Eaglestone(Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway,University of London,UK)
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第1期1-12,共12页
Foreign Literature Studies
