伊尔莎·艾兴格尔《镜子的故事》初探

奥地利当代著名女作家艾兴格尔在西方文坛颇为有名,且对德国战后文学影响很大,其代表作《镜子的故事》以一种有别于传统倒叙的逆转叙述方式讲述了一个普通女人的一生。该作品的创作手法别具一格,主题表达极其出色。对这一短篇小说的初步解读,中国读者可从中窥见艾兴格尔的创作特点,领略其艺术风格。

Preliminary Analytical Reading of The Story of Mirror by Ilse Aichinger

Ilse Aichinger, the famous contemporary woman writer of Austria, enjoys great prestige in Western Literature in 20th century. And she also has significantly influenced the postwar German literature. But in China we have studied very little about her. In her representative work, the Story of Mirror, Aichinger has described the whole life of an ordinary woman with outstanding expression of theme and unique skill of literary creation. She tells us the story in an inverse narrative way, which is different from traditional flashback. Through the preliminary analytical reading of this short story, the Chinese readers nowadays can understand Aichinger's characteristic of literary creation and style of art.