如果，明天沒有愛：論《夜曲集》中的液態愛

If, a Tomorrow "sans" Love-Liquid Love in "Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall"

10.7015/JEAS.201406_44(2).0002

王景智(Ching-Chih Wang)

液態愛 ； 液態現代性 ； 重要他者 ； 憂喜參半的恩賜 ； liquid love ； liquid modernity ； significant other ； mixed blessings

歐美研究

44卷2期（2014 / 06 / 01）

163 - 191

繁體中文

本論文以齊格蒙．包曼《液態之愛》為論述基礎，探討石黑一雄《夜曲集》所描繪的液態愛。根據包曼的說法，不確定的人際關係是在強調即溶且即時的現代文明中無法避免的生命經驗。液態愛是對抗不確定性的手段，或只不過是另一種直指人際紐帶脆弱的挫敗？《夜曲集》的主角們因害怕獨自面對人際紐帶鬆脫瞬間所帶來的傷害，所以得努力尋找重要他者與之為伍，但同行者卻提醒了他們亟欲壓抑的不堪與無奈。如果明天就必須鬆開此刻緊握的人際紐帶，石黑一雄筆下那些透過音樂尋得救贖的液態國度漫遊者，仍會為追求生命遠景跼隅前進。

This paper lays emphasis on Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of ＂liquid love＂ to analyze the frail human relations depicted in Kazuo Ishiguro’s ＂Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall＂ (2009). As Bauman points out, liquid modern habitants are condemned to live in a realm of uncertainty wherein human relations are necessarily impermanent. A concluded game must be immediately left behind so as to move on directly to the next without grudges, because none of the connecting bonds can vouch for its duration in the liquid modern scenario. Before tying the knot, individuals must anticipate the moment of loosening, and the bond need be loosely tied so that it can be untied again when the situation changes. Is this freedom to relate a means of confronting uncertainty, or derivative of a failure to withstand the frailty of human bonds? The protagonists in Ishiguro’s Nocturnes do not wish to act alone when they have to untie the bonds. Finding a significant other with whom they confront the moment of untying becomes urgent and imperative, even while the significant other reminds them of whatever it is they wish to repress. If love changes because of uncertainties, Ishiguro’s musicians roaming in the liquid modern world will still choose to relate to the next human bond without any delay.

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