"MIXING MEMORY AND DESIRE": FORM, IDEOLOGY, AND SEAN O'FAOLAIN'S POST-REVOLUTIONARY IRELAND

「揉合記憶與慾望」：形式、意識型態與歐惠倫作品中獨立後的愛爾蘭

林玉珍(Yu-chen Lin)

form ； ideology ； Sean O'Faolain ； post-revolutionary Ireland ； 形式 ； 意識型態 ； 歐惠倫 ； 獨立後的愛爾蘭

歐美研究

31卷1期（2001 / 03 / 01）

35 - 78

英文

This essay considers Sean O'Faolain's intense interest in memory in his short stories on post-revolutionary Ireland. Neutral in classical storytelling, which anticipated the Irish short story, memory is ideological in O'Faolain's writing since it is fraught with a desire for little narratives on national identity as an alternative to the hegemonic notion of an Irish Ireland. This yearning is first articulated as a nostalgia for a unified nation in the context of a postlapsarian Ireland where normalization leads to the vulgarization of national identity. However, it gradually shifts to a problematics of memory when boredom is the governing principle of the national life, and ultimately becomes a parable of the dilemma of a modern writer engaged in unraveling the foreignness of the Irish character by dramatizing the failure of memory and storytelling. In his last work he recourses to quasi-autobiography to illustrate the productivity of memory's failure: With his faulty memory, the autobiographer, and his twin, the storyteller, is probably the most necessary liar to recuperate the hidden part of the Irish nature residing in the thinness of Irish life.

本文探討歐惠倫如何以和傳統說書形式類近的短篇小說，呈現獨立後的愛爾蘭。記憶乃為說書之本，只不過在說書時，記憶應屬中性，而在歐惠倫作品中，記憶即是意識型態，因為他以國族認同的小敘述，取代「純種愛爾蘭」的霸權言說。在早期作品中，他透過類似說書人的敘事者，發抒對愛爾蘭革命前國族一統的懷舊情緒；中期作品則著眼於對記憶本質的探討；晚期則藉由記憶與說書的挫敗，點出現代作家在呈現愛爾蘭特性中的異質時，所遭遇的困境。在最後作品中，他更以類自傳小說，描繪記憶衰退的創造性層面。原來自傳作者和說書人一樣，容或記憶失靈，但以其功在召回愛爾蘭民族性中隱抑的特質，卻可視為不可或缺的騙子。

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