「中年之愛」的敘事演繹朱天心《初夏荷花時期的愛情》析論

Deduction on the Narratives of the Middle Age Love-Analysis on Chu Tien-hsin's Early Summer Love

劉慧珠(Hui-Zhu Liu)

《修平人文社會學報》 18期 (2012/03) Pp. 1-23

https://doi.org/10.29547/ZHWHGX.201203.0001

摘要

做為一個專業作家，朱天心曾以其外省身分與歷史系出身的背景，成為她極力想要撇清或論辯的「立場」，也形塑了她持續以書寫來記錄或記憶歷史的企圖，因而接收到各界過多的關切。2010年初《初夏荷花時期的愛情》的出版，駱以軍已從同行的角度看出了小說在主題與形式設計上的辯證關係，然而若只在意此辯證手法的使用，而略去了小說家在精巧的架構下所蘊藏的思想意涵，可能辜負了此題的抒情性，並因而抹煞了一種閱讀小說時的純粹感動。因此，本論文想從文本處理「中年之愛」題材的切入，談朱天心在小說敘事手法上的慣性與特色；與前期相比，其小說在敘事結構上不僅變本加厲於其「歷史空間化」的處理，且處處見其承傳與演繹的痕跡，流露其抒情敘事的特質與巧思。從〈日記〉到〈偷情〉等篇章，朱天心演繹了種種人生中老年的情境，其中最重要的是在高舉／建構愛情的同時也在打破／解構愛情的文本與框架；在高舉愛情的神聖性的同時也在拆解愛情的神話。作者如此「講說」故事與重塑記憶／歷史的功力，較之前期有過之而無不及。然而，文本在拆解與諷喻的背後，是隱喻人生應有更高層次的追求，否則當神奇之獸逃離（慾望消褪）之後，人將何所適從？

關鍵字

朱天心 ； 《初夏荷花時期的愛情》 ； 中年之愛 ； 敘事演繹 ； 替換 ； 偷情

並列摘要

Zhu as a professional writer with the background of history department graduation and the second generation of immigrants from Mainland China, who wants to stand up or against her special position gradually sketches her special affinity into the books as the way of narratives or history flashback. Zhu always gets a lot of concerns from all over the fields. Lu, yi-jun has already observed the dialectical relation from the theme and form when early summer love was first published in the year. If we only care about the dialect and ignore the messages she wants to express, we will miss the most valuable thing.Therefore, this paper would like from the text dealing with the ”middle-aged love” theme of the cut, Chu Tien-hsin talk about narrative technique in fiction and on the inertia characteristics; compared with the previous, his novel not only intensified in the narrative structure of its ”historical space ”of the deal, and everywhere reflected in its heritage and interpretation of the traces, reveal the nature of its narrative and lyrical ingenuity.From chapter of diary and love affairs, Chu deduces all kind of middle age possibility.The most important is that when she composes or highlights the importance of love she also breaks/pulls apart the value and framework of love. Namely, constructing and demolishing the myth of love are happening at the same time. The way Ms Chu tells the story and restructures the memory/history is her uniqueness that is more exceptional than before. Other than this, it also implies that the life itself should pursue higher level and take challenge more or when the mysterious monster –desire disappears, what the life left behind?

並列關鍵字

Chu ； Tien-hsin ； the first summer love ； middle age love ； the deduction of narratives ； replacement ； love affairs