何處是兒家？：《別讓我走》中「家」的變奏與衍異

Where is Home?: The Variation of Home in ＂Never Let Me Go＂

王景智(Ching-Chih Wang)

《中外文學》 36卷2期 (2007/06) Pp. 221-246

https://doi.org/10.6637/CWLQ.2007.36(2).221-246

摘要

石黑一雄新作《別讓我走》（Never Let Me Go, 2005）描述複製人學習面對無家可歸命運的歷程。作家運用複製人凱西八的回憶將複製人醫學基因工程的探討深化為對生命延續的質疑，透過詭異他者回憶似是而非的過往與面對日暮西山的當下，《別讓我走》彈奏了一首家的變奏曲，娓娓道出遺世孤兒不知何處是兒家的淒涼，但「家」在經過回憶、質疑與認肯之後，比他者更詭異的陌生人仍開闢出一條「在家」與「回家」的可能路徑。

關鍵字

特權陌生人 ； 詭異之家 ； 詭異陌生性 ； 悅納異己 ； 代罪羔羊 ； 在家與回家 ； 陌生人社群

並列摘要

＂Never Let Me Go＂ (2005) explores the human clone's sense of unhomeliness. Kazuo Ishiguro employs Kathy H. to examine the sadness of human conditions implied in her search for an unhomely home in a world that is no longer a place providing unconditional hospitality. Through her remembrance of things past, Kathy H. learns to acknowledge that her home is located no where but now here even though the here-and-now is no more than an ephemeral world that is anxiously waiting for her ＂completion.＂ Kathy's memory of home also demonstrates a possible route for the stranger strangers to be-come home in a floating world.

並列關鍵字

privileged stranger ； uncanny/unhomely home ； uncanny strangeness ； hospitality ； scapegoat ； be-coming home ； community of strangers