英文摘要
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This paper, based on Chapter 4 "Sorceress' Route" in Zhu Tianwen's novel Sorcerer's Discourse, is concerned with the narration of mourning and the writing of memory of a significant life event: the death of her father. In the novel, Zhu Tianwen, when facing the death of her father Zhu Xining, calls herself a sorcerer and shows how she re-creates the images of her father, recalls the memory in life, ponders the topics of death, and develops the writing of death and existence. Using "route" as a metaphor, "Sorceress' Route" demonstrates a narrative connection between mourning, space, and path. This paper explores two major issues. The first issue is the perception of space and mourning in narration-specifically, the interpretation of space and mourning with the focus on the representational space, such as a city, church, hospital and telephone booth, in "Sorceress' Route" and the home of the ex-director in Unaccompanied Traveler. The second issue is the path to death and the path to the search of one's father. Specifically, this essay examines the narration from the metaphors of two paths in Unaccompanied Traveler and "Sorceress' Route." The first path concerns with how the ex-director faces his inevitable demise. The latter path involves the implied trace of meaning in the ex-director's testament and the meaning of the handwriting in The Transformed Cell.
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