爱丽丝-麦克德莫特的《几乎看不见的叙述者

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.3366/iur.2023.0622

Edward A. Hagan

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为什么爱丽丝-麦克德莫特的叙述者不承认法定强奸罪和谋杀罪？为什么她让读者很难分辨出谁是她的叙述者？她迫使我们与她一起构建故事，并让初次阅读的读者感到异常困难。拉斯洛-弗尔德尼（Laszlo F. Földényi）的论文集《陀思妥耶夫斯基在西伯利亚读黑格尔并潸然泪下》（2020）有助于我们理解麦克德莫特在描写爱尔兰裔美国人时所采取的叙事策略的哲学基础。她的叙述者揭示了主体与客体之间虚假的二元对立所造成的空虚感--这是一种当代病。麦克德莫特恢复了神秘感，以此作为知识体系的解毒剂。对她的小说，尤其是《我心中的孩子》（2002年）、《某个人》（2013年）和《第九时辰》（2017年）的分析表明，麦克德莫特是治疗叙述者寻求控制自己讲述的故事的良方。某人》是了解我们当代意识病症的关键小说。

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Alice McDermott's Almost Invisible Narrators

Why do Alice McDermott's narrators not acknowledge a statutory rape and a murder? Why does she make it hard for readers to detect who her narrators are? She compels us to work with her to construct her stories and makes the task unusually hard for the first-time reader. Laszlo F. Földényi's collection of essays, Dostoyevski Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears (2020), helps us to understand the philosophical basis for McDermott's narrative strategies in her depictions of Irish America. Her narrators reveal the emptiness occasioned by a false dichotomy between subject and object – a contemporary disease. McDermott restores mystery as the antidote to systems of knowledge. Analysis of her novels, especially Child of My Heart (2002), Someone (2013) and The Ninth Hour (2017), suggests McDermott's cure for the narrators’ quest for control over the stories they tell. Someone is a key novel for understanding what ails our contemporary consciousness.

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期刊介绍： Since its launch in 1970, the Irish University Review has sought to foster and publish the best scholarly research and critical debate in Irish literary and cultural studies. The first issue contained contributions by Austin Clarke, John Montague, Sean O"Faolain, and Conor Cruise O"Brien, among others. Today, the journal publishes the best literary and cultural criticism by established and emerging scholars in Irish Studies. It is published twice annually, in the Spring and Autumn of each year. The journal is based in University College Dublin, where it was founded in 1970 by Professor Maurice Harmon, who edited the journal from 1970 to 1987. It has subsequently been edited by Professor Christopher Murray (1987-1997).