赛珍珠《大地》叙事空间的置遣谫论

赛珍珠的《大地》虽然是用传统叙事写法创作的小说,但仍带有明显的叙事空间化的倾向,体现了时空维度的统一。小说以王龙一家所居村庄为基点空间,同时又设置了附近的城镇和南方大城市两个外缘空间。三大空间都具有表征人物性格、助推情节发展和突显主题思想等多种功能。三大空间都蕴含着地理、社会、文化、心理等方面因素,都由场域、场景和场面三个层次构成,并都表现出实在性、主体性和能动性三大特征。深厚的生活积累和谙熟中国小说写法是作者得以充分发挥空间叙事的长处并圆满完成故事讲述宗旨的决定性前提。

Scheduling of Narrative Space of Good EarthWritten by Pearl Buck

Though Good Earth by Pearl Buck is a novel written with traditional narrative model,it has an obvious tendency of spatialized narration. With the village where Wang Long's family lives as the base space,the author schedules the nearby town and a big southern city as the outer space. Each space reflects a variety of functions of representing characters,advancing plot development,highlighting the theme and so on. Constituted by field,scenario and scene,each space contains many elements such as geography,society,culture and psychology,and shows characteristics of reality,subjectivity and motility. It is the deep accumulation of life and familiarity with the Chinese novel writing that the author could take advantage of space narrative and successfully completed the objective of story telling.