石黑一雄的《Nonactors》

IF 0.3 2区 文学 0 LITERATURE NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Pub Date : 2020-02-18 DOI:10.1215/00295132-8624552
M. Christou
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在石黑一雄的作品中,处于中心位置的是非演员角色:这种角色类型一次又一次地让我们面对行动被贬低的场景。这篇文章表明,尽管石黑一雄的角色发现自己处于需要采取行动的情境中,但他们却选择了规避风险和类似机械的行为,这些行为是匿名的。然而,这并不仅仅是一种审美现象,本文考察了石黑一雄小说中非行动者的形象,将其作为更广泛转向不作为的一部分。这是通过将这个人物与一个明显的20世纪背景联系起来来考虑的,在这个背景中,正如汉娜·阿伦特(Hannah Arendt)所言,人类的行为被视为比以往任何时候都更加危险。石黑一雄的非行动者可以被看作是我们这个时代和当代小说中这种理解的遗产,但也可以看作是突变。这篇文章表明,这一遗产揭示了主导冷战后世界的新自由主义思维模式的一个未被充分审视的方面。石黑一雄的小说并没有提倡个人的、自私自利的行为的价值,而是把一些不同但同样有害的东西带到了最前面:对个人行动能力的全面贬低。
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Nonactors
At center stage in Kazuo Ishiguro's work is the figure of the nonactor: a character type that confronts us time and again with scenarios in which action is devalued. This essay shows that, despite finding themselves in situations that mandate action, Ishiguro's characters opt instead for risk-averse and mechanical-like behaviors that are antonymous to change. This, however, is not a solely aesthetic phenomenon, and the essay examines the figure of the nonactor in Ishiguro's novels as part of a broader turn toward nonaction. It does so by considering this figure in relation to a distinctly twentieth-century context within which, as Hannah Arendt has it, human action came to be seen as more dangerous than ever before. Ishiguro's nonactors can be seen as the legacy, but also as the mutations, of this understanding in our own era and in the contemporary novel. This legacy, the essay demonstrates, reveals an underexamined aspect of the neoliberal mind-set that dominates the post–Cold War world. Rather than promote the worthiness of individual, self-serving action, Ishiguro's novels bring to the forefront something different though no less pernicious: a wholescale devaluation of the individual's capacity to act.
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期刊介绍: Widely acknowledged as the leading journal in its field, Novel publishes essays concerned with the novel"s role in engaging and shaping the world. To promote critical discourse on the novel, the journal publishes significant work on fiction and related areas of research and theory. Recent issues on the early American novel, eighteenth-century fiction, and postcolonial modernisms carry on Novel"s long-standing interest in the Anglo-American tradition.
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