贝克特小说中的时间难题

书籍目录

Introduction

Chapter One: Beckett and the Time Aporias

1.1 Proust: Beckett's conception of the time aporias

1.2 The "Real" Proust and Beckett's Proust

1.3 Introduction of Schopenhauer and Bergson to Proust

Chapter Two: Murphy: Reinstatement of the Time Aporias

2.1 The Shadow of Marcel.. the little world

2.2 The Time Cancer: the big world

2.2.1 Rule of Habit and Voluntary Memory

2.2.2 The Unidirectional Contrived Love in the big world

2.3 Impossible Reconciliation Between the two Worlds

2.3.1 The Possibility of Dichotomy

2.3.2 Attempts at Reconciliation in the Novel

2.3.3 The Futile Quest for the Involuntary Time

2.4 Narrative Time Structure of Murphy

2.4.1 The Holistic Narrative time: Narrative Determinism

2.4.2 The Mixed—up Narrative as a Result of Different Time Experience

Chapter Three: Watt : Time in its Pure Form

3.1 The Working Mechanism of a Clock

3.1.1 The Two Servants as Two Clock Hands

3.1.2 The Fable of Clock Time in Knott's House

3.1.3 The Reduction of Time to Figures

3.1.4 Music and the Clock Time: Pure Form of Music

3.2 The Clock out of Order

3.2.1 Mr. Knott: The Absent Central Point of the Clock

3.2.2 The Missing Substratum: the Persistent "Now"

3.2.3 The Anti—music Feature of Music in the Novel

3.3 The Clockwise Narrative Time

3.3.1 The Reshaped Circle of a Clock

3.3.2 Breakdown of the Narrative Time: No Configuration or Refiguration

3.3.3 Threefold Narrative Structure:The Unauthentic Narrator

Chapter Four: Molloy: the Quest for the Origin of Time

4.1 The Origin of Time

4.1.1 Mother of all Mankind: the Goddess of Time

4.1.2 The Quest for the Goddess of Time

4.1.3 The Paradox of Life and Death in the Goddess of Time

4.2 The fake Goddess in Lousse's house

4.2.1 The "Goddess" Lousse

4.2.2 A Replica of Knott's house

4.2.3 Love in the Lousse's House

4.3 Two Corresponding Failures: Molloy and Moran

4.3.1 The son as the body: Unborn or Rebirth?

4.3.2 Moran's Metamorphosis: to be Like Molloy

4.4 Immemorial Expatiation: Back to the Narrative Past

4.4.1 Narrative Time Of Moran's Narrative

Part: Change in Narrative Experience

4.4.2 Anti-narrative Time in Molloy's Narrative

Part: the Mythological Present

Chapter Five: Malone Dies: to Understand Time in Death

Chapter Six: The Unnamable: Time as "the Between"

Conclusion

Works Cited

作者简介

本书从贝克特小说中的时间难题入手分析，并结合分析布朗肖与贝克特两人在实际生活与小说作品中的交集，来阐述贝克特对于语言和时间观的接受，以及对于“虚无”和叙事死亡的悖论的理解。概括说来，时间和语言的变化在布朗肖和贝克特的作品中都经历了两个阶段，一是虚无化,一是死亡。经历了这两个阶段之后，故事中的“我”和讲故事的“我”都消失在叙事中。

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