一种未被记录的语法:j·m·库切的《在国家的中心》中的口语体现

Ellen Kriz
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本文试图理解j·m·库切的《在国家的中心》是如何通过语言的不确定性来阐述对痛苦身体的回应的,包括通过编号和经常矛盾的段落和玛格达意识的有限性来表达它的结构。我认为,基于《心》通过其缺陷发挥作用的可能性,玛格达通过指出它无法掌握的现实,包括身体在痛苦中的不可还原的见证,重写了她继承的压迫性语言。身体作为一种无可争议的存在,站在语言的范围之外,在那里,它拒绝被编纂,它催化了新的,越界的说话尝试。这样的尝试就像一种肢体语言,可以将玛格达的独白转化为互惠的对话。这是一种玛格达最终无法表达的语言。她仍然停留在潜在性中,阅读“脸和手的组合”的信号,这些信号不完全地传达了另一个人存在的奥秘。但也许与他人交谈的行为必须始终保持在失败的边缘:对他人存在的未知的回应需要一种未记录的语法。因此,在他的非固定文本的空白中,库切提供了一个语言事件作为对实际痛苦的回应。
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An Unrecorded Grammar: Speaking Embodiment in J.M. Coetzee’s ​In the Heart of the Country
This essay seeks to understand how J. M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country elaborates a response to the suffering body by way of linguistic indeterminacy, including its structural presentation via numbered and often contradictory passages and the liminality of Magda’s consciousness. Grounding the paper on the possibility that Heart functions through its lacunae, I argue that Magda rewrites the oppressive language she has inherited by pointing to realities it cannot grasp, including the irreducible witness of the body in pain. The body stands as an incontrovertible presence just outside the reach of language, where, in its refusal to be codified, it catalyses new, transgressive attempts at speaking. Such attempts function as a body-speech that could transform the speaking-about of Magda’s monologue into the speaking-to of reciprocity. It is a language that Magda ultimately fails to articulate. She remains suspended in potentiality, reading the signals “in conformations of face and hands” that communicate, incompletely, the mysteries of another’s being. But perhaps the act of speaking to another must always remain poised on the brink of failure: response to the unknown of another’s being requires an unrecorded grammar. Thus, in the lacunae of his unfixed text, Coetzee offers a linguistic event as a response to actual suffering.
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