Поетика наративу в романі Кадзуо Ішіґуро "Прозорий серпанок над горами"

Abstract

Статтю присвячено дослідженню наративних стратегій та інтермедіальної поетики роману К. Ішіґуро “Прозорий серпанок над горами” (1982). Особливу увагу зосереджено на наративних прийомах, художніх і лексичних засобах, що акцентують на ненадійності наратора. Також виокремлено ознаки японської естетики (ідеться про лаконічність та аудіовізуальність). До того ж у статті висвітлено ряд художніх ефектів і наративних прийомів, що уподібнюють твір К. Ішіґуро до мистецтва кінематографу.

The current paper explores the narrative strategies and poetics of intermediality in Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel “A Pale View of Hills” (1982). Particular attention is paid to the notions of narrative unreliability and subjectivity exemplified by the ambiguous first-person narrative in the novel. The researcher focuses on the narrative techniques, as well as on the numerous lexical and other literary means that emphasize the unreliability of the narrator, who is also the protagonist. It allows revealing the hidden emotions and tendency to self-deceit. In addition, the paper traces the features of Japanese aesthetics and literature in the novel. The most peculiar among them are concise verbal expression, lack of emotion, and audiovisuality, which is primary concentration of the narrative on the visual and auditory images, rather than on the characters’ internal psychological processes. A range of narrative strategies and special literary effects in “A Pale View of Hills”, being characteristic for the art of cinematography, make the novel a vivid example of the cinematographic (cinematic) literature, which requires a different, more image-oriented perception of the reader. Among such techniques, the most notable are the enhanced symbolism of sensual images; revealing the characters’ actual feelings and thoughts through their non-verbal language and dialogues; fragmented and elliptic nature of the narrative that resembles the technique of montage; and the plasticity of chronotope, which is represented by the active use of flashbacks in the novel.