《三人重逢:埃德温·德鲁德的真正复活》

IF 0.7 1区 文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES DICKENS QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-05-23 DOI:10.1353/dqt.2023.0022
C. Glatt
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尽管《埃德温·德罗德之谜》的后殖民时代阅读相对较新,但对他的批评主要集中在约翰·贾斯珀身上,他是一位受人尊敬的唱诗班大师,也是一位表面上溺爱孩子的叔叔,他对鸦片的幻想导致了对侄子生活的认真、看似成功的尝试。Jasper看起来充满了怨恨和沮丧的激情,他是一个双重和压抑的人物,他的描绘反映了维多利亚时代对潜意识的兴趣;几位传记作家和评论家将他解读为狄更斯自身困境心理的折射镜。1对同名的埃德温本人的关注要少得多。Edwin自称是一个“肤浅、肤浅的人”,他的早逝似乎在任何情况下都将他从叙事经济中移除(11;ch.2),事实证明,他没有他备受折磨的叔叔那么引人注目。然而,我认为,埃德温是小说探索原始弗洛伊德意识和自我概念的中心。《死亡中的埃德温》是狄更斯早期小说中更为典型的人物类型的代表,它表明了这种模式的心理和叙事局限性:表面上的人既无法承受一个要求英雄越来越内在的世界,也无法承受拥有如此复杂性的反派主角。与此同时,埃德温的失踪让人们松了一口气,贾斯珀——也许还有其他任何角色——最终都不适合完成他空出的位置,这一位置得到了有力的暗示,即埃德温必须以某种形式回来,小说才能完成。作为对狄更斯职业生涯前一阶段的提醒,作为贾斯珀分裂意识的象征性另一半,埃德温在死亡中抵制过时,并表明他与叙事和自我模式的持续相关性。
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These Three, Met Again: The Real Resurrection of Edwin Drood
Despite a comparatively recent flourishing of postcolonial readings of the novel, criticism of The Mystery of Edwin Drood has been focused predominantly on John Jasper, the respected choir-master and outwardly doting uncle whose opium-fueled fantasies lead, to all appearances, to an earnest, seemingly successful attempt on his nephew’s life. Seething with resentment and frustrated passion, Jasper is a figure of doubleness and repression whose depiction reflects an emerging Victorian interest in the unconscious mind; several biographers and critics have read him as a refracted mirror into Dickens’s own troubled psyche.1 Far less attention has been paid to the eponymous Edwin himself. A self-confessed “shallow, surface kind of fellow” whose early death seems in any case to remove him from the narrative economy (11; ch. 2), Edwin proves less compelling than his tormented uncle. Yet Edwin, I will argue, lies at the center of the novel’s exploration of proto-Freudian notions of consciousness and selfhood. Representative of a character type far more typical of Dickens’s earlier novels, Edwin, in death, suggests the psychological and narrative limits of this model: the surface fellow cannot withstand either a world that demands increasing interiority of its heroes or the villain–protagonist who possesses such complexity. At the same time, Edwin’s disappearance casts into relief the ultimate unfitness of Jasper – and, perhaps, of any other character – to fulfill his vacated place, a position supported by strong hints that Edwin must return in some form before the work of the novel can be completed. As a reminder of a previous phase of Dickens’s career and as a symbolic other half of Jasper’s divided consciousness, Edwin, in death, resists obsolescence and suggests his continuing relevance to models of both narrative and the self.
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