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2013-11-13 来源: 类别: 更多范文
English Patient
What does it matter who speaks'" asks Samuel Beckett via Michel
Foucault's essay. "What is an Author'" ". . . Am I just a book'"
asks the burned Englishman in Michael Ondaatje's novel The English
Patient, in response to Caravaggio's attempts to reveal his past
as the cartographer/spy Alma sy. Both questions are germane to
a central tension in the novel: What are the implications (for
texts) of an absent/anonymous narrative creator' In this novel,
the issue of "who speaks" is not an innocent one. The English
patient would like, for various reasons, to absolve himself of
authorial responsibility for his narrative. The most apparent
of these reasons is certainly to avoid the repercussions of his
being identified as Alma sy. Yet the "black body" of this "despairing
saint" gives no clue to his identity, and therefore to the "origin"
of the discourse of which he is the source. He is an unreadable
enigma, with "all identification consumed in a fire" (3), whom
the inhabitants of the villa must nonetheless translate into
their own narratives.
This absence of locating identification poses a problem for anyone
who seeks to "read" the English patient in the terms of what
Foucault names in his essay the "Author Function," which (among
other things) demands that we name the writer in order to understand
the
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