遗忘与记忆的变奏--米兰·昆德拉小说的题旨隐喻

米兰·昆德拉小说中丰富的隐喻,既是特定文化语境中充满诗性智慧的叙述策略,又包含了这一诗意表达所蕴含的内容.昆德拉移民法国前后的几部作品,便集中反映出"遗忘"的隐喻题旨.<为了告别的聚会>传递的是昆德拉作为移民作家即将流亡的信息,<笑忘录>则集中反映他初居外国后的体验和心理,二者反映作者由特定历史时期的"有组织遗忘"引发出的存在思考,以及在异质语境中的文化陌生感与写作危机;现代社会大众传媒所导致的"无意识遗忘",进一步显示遗忘的人类学本质.昆德拉借助于对"遗忘"的隐喻表达,探讨人类彼此确认的问题,有效阐释了一系列重要的存在主题.

The Metaphor of Forgetting in Milan Kundera's Fiction

Milan Kundera's fiction abounds in metaphors. The novels he wrote around his emigration to France focus on the metaphor of forgetting. The Farewell Party conveys a message about his intention of emigration while the Book of Forgetting and Laughter concentrates on the expression of his personal experience and psychology after his emigration to France. Both pieces reflect his existentialist thoughts on organized forgetting in the certain historical period. They also give expression to his cultural strangeness and writing crisis in an alien linguistic context. By means of the forgetting metaphor, Kundera discusses the issue of mutual identification and examines a series of important existentialist themes.