文学“镜子”中的后苏联历史:叙事分析中的经验

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Tekst Kniga Knigoizdanie-Text Book Publishing Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.17223/23062061/30/2
Natalya V. Oturgasheva
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文学作品的叙事分析能够利用科学积累的工具,在所有多层次的深度上解释当今的叙事文本,特别是如果这些文本涉及当前和热门的政治事件,这些事件通常用媒体话语的语言来谈论。叙述者的状态(内在的和外在的)变化和他/她个人观点的存在,以及他/她的信息的特定语言,都是叙事结构的标志。本文以弗拉基米尔·梅德韦杰夫的《扎克霍克》和纳琳·阿布加里安的《继续生存》为基础,考察的主题是这种分析所需的叙事文本组织的关键层面。研究选择的文本在主题(苏联解体后苏联空间的军事冲突)和作者的策略上都是相似的——将人物的个人命运纳入国家的社会历史,并进一步尝试将其视为国家文化代码的一部分。作者观点的独特之处在于,他意识到战争不是一个已经完成的事件,而是一种仍然持续的状态,它渗透、变形和破坏着人们的命运,也破坏着整个民族的命运。在梅德韦杰夫的小说中,这些主要是年轻人的声音,他们是动荡的直接参与者,他们被听到了;在Abgaryan的书中,这些都是亚美尼亚妇女、母亲、妻子和寡妇的声音。梅德韦杰夫的风格更强硬,更有活力,冲突在我们眼前展开。在Abgaryan的故事中,情节并不那么重要:所有的关键事件都发生在过去,人物只是在回忆它们。叙述者类型所指定的叙事话语的代码决定了文本的文体,行为的本质,事件的解释:它们通过叙述者的努力迅速改变彼此,叙述者在梅德韦杰夫的小说中被置于军事和国内冲突的中心。阿伯加里安笔下的人物缓慢而安静,他们漫长而艰难的生活给了他们来之不易的智慧,让他们接受现实,因为它是苦涩的完整。人物的个人戏剧涉及到超越特定时代的整个民族的整体悲剧;这使得作者能够揭示叙事认同的民族文化决定因素。共同的悲伤可以通过爱、工作、耐心和文化资本来克服,文化资本体现在人们的心态和生活方式中,使他们有可能生存并获得新的文化认同。集体悲剧(社会历史)通过人物的命运(个人叙事)向读者敞开,成为史诗历史(元叙事)的一部分。作者的策略赋予了故事永恒的尺度和本体的深度。作者声明没有利益冲突。
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Post-Soviet history in the “mirror” of literature: Experience in narrative analysis
Narrative analysis of literary works enables to interpret present-day narrative texts in all their multi-level depth making use of the tools accumulated in science -especially if those texts concern current and topical political events, which are usually spoken about in the language of media discourse. Change in the state (inner and outer) and presence of a narrator having his/her personal viewpoint and, consequently, the specific language of his/her message are signs of a narrative structure. The subject for consideration in this article based on Zakhkhok by Vladimir Medvedev and To Live On by Narine Abgaryan is key levels of the narrative text organization needed for such analysis. The texts chosen for the research are similar in subject matter (military conflicts in the post-Soviet space caused by the collapse of the USSR) and in the author’s strategy - to include characters’ personal destinies into the social history of the country and further to try and conceive them as part of the cultural code of the nation. The peculiarity of the author’s view is the awareness of war not as a completed event but as a still lasting state, which permeates, deforms and destroys people’s destinies as well as destinies of whole nations. In Medvedev’s novel those are mainly voices of young men, immediate participants of the turbulence, that are heard; in Abgaryan’s book those are voices of Armenian women, mothers, wives, and widows. Medvedev’s style is tougher and more dynamic, collision unfolding before our eyes. In Abgaryan’s story the plot is not that important: all key events were in the past, and characters are just recalling them. The code of the narrative discourse specified by the narrator’s type determines the stylistics of the text, the nature of action, the interpretation of events: they rapidly change one another by means of the efforts of the narrators who were placed in the centre of military and domestic conflicts in Medvedev’s novel. Abgaryan’s characters are slow and quiet, their long and difficult life gives them hard-won wisdom to accept reality as it is in its bitter completeness. Personal dramas of the characters are involved in the overall tragedy of the whole nation which goes beyond a specific era; this enables the author to reveal the ethno-cultural determinants of the narrative identity. Common grief can be overcome by means of love, work, patience and the cultural capital which manifests itself in people’s mentality and way of life and makes it possible for them to survive and gain a new cultural identity. Collective tragedy (social history), which opens to a reader through the characters’ destinies (personal narrative), becomes part of epic history (meta-narrative). This author’s strategy gives the stories told a timeless scale and ontological depth. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
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