论《玻璃之城》中“城市误读”的根源

发布时间：2018-01-26 09:04

本文关键词： 保罗·奥斯特《纽约三部曲》《玻璃之城》　出处：《学术交流》2013年09期 　论文类型：期刊论文

【摘要】：美国当代作家保罗·奥斯特的《纽约三部曲—玻璃之城》虽采用侦探小说的题材和框架,但小说结局留给读者的却是比开篇时更多的谜团。小说所关注的是作者围绕城市对人类历史与生存状态展开的讨论与探索。和传统刻画城市的作品不同,《玻璃之城》既没有直接描写、也未借助小说人物的观察来表现城市建筑风景与风俗习惯。在小说中,被比作玻璃之城的纽约是通过两个城市居民的生存状态与相互碰撞而展开的。通过二人体验城市的困惑,纽约在空间上的广阔性与精神内涵上的多元化跃然纸上。小说的题目"玻璃之城"含有脆弱性、反射性、折射性、透明性与隔离性几重象征意义。观察者希望从多元化的城市生活中得出单一化结论,寻求能够控制城市生活各个层次的统一规则,却忽略了其中不可知性的存在。这些因素导致了以两位主人公为代表的"城市读者"的失败。而在城市与"概念城市"相互关系的解读中,反侦探小说题材与故事中的委托案使情节与误读的主题产生呼应。作品开放性的结局将读者的目光由小说中人物对城市误读引向自身对世界观察与认知方式的反思。
[Abstract]:Paul Oster, a contemporary American writer, "the New York Trilogy-the City of Glass" uses the themes and framework of detective fiction. However, the end of the novel leaves readers with more puzzles than at the beginning. The novel focuses on the author's discussion and exploration of human history and living state around the city, which is different from the works of traditional depiction of the city. "the City of Glass" is not directly described, nor has it been observed by the characters of the novel to express the architectural scenery and customs of the city. In the novel. New York, likened to the city of glass, is developed through the existence and collision of the inhabitants of the two cities, and the confusion of the city is experienced by the two. New York's expanse of space and diversity of spiritual connotations are on paper. The title of the novel "the City of Glass" contains fragility, reflection and refraction. Transparency and isolation symbolize several aspects. Observers hope to draw a single conclusion from the diversity of urban life and seek uniform rules that can control all levels of urban life. These factors lead to the failure of the "Urban readers", represented by the two protagonists, and in the interpretation of the relationship between the city and the "conceptual city". The theme of anti-detective novel and the entrustment case in the story echo the theme of plot and misreading. The open ending of the work leads the reader's eyes from the characters' misreading of the city to their own anti-observation and cognitive style of the world. Think.
【作者单位】：天津师范大学外国语学院;
【分类号】：I712.074
【正文快照】： 《玻璃之城》是美国当代作家保罗·奥斯特(Paul Auster)于1987年出版的小说《纽约三部曲》中的第一部。小说中两位孜孜不倦地探索纽约这座城市空间存在和意识形态的主人公———学者彼得·斯蒂尔曼和侦探小说家丹尼尔·奎因是非常值得研究的。本文将着重分析这两个人物各自对

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