《吉姆爷》中的弃船事件与英国性的衰落、修正及改写  

The Event of Abandoning the Ship and the Decline,Correction and Rewriting of Englishness in Lord Jim

作　　者：李秋宇 LI Qiuyu(School of Foreign Studies,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210023,China)

机构地区：[1]南京大学外国语学院,江苏南京210023

出　　处：《东北大学学报（社会科学版）》2023年第1期145-150,共6页Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science)

基　　金：教育部人文社会科学研究西部和边疆地区资助项目(21A10681007)。

摘　　要：康拉德的作品《吉姆爷》改编自1880年“圣吉达号”轮船上数名英国船员面临沉船危机时抛下乘客弃船逃生的真实事件。船龄仅八年的“圣吉达号”在小说中变成了生锈后经过粉饰继续航行的旧船“帕特纳号”,康拉德似乎试图通过涉事船只的“生锈”隐喻弃船行为背后英国商船队精神和绅士精神等英国性特质的衰落,以该船的命运警醒国人,并给出了自己的解决方案——对“生锈”的英国性先后进行“抛光”和“粉饰”,亦即通过改写真实事件,对衰落的英国性进行美化。《吉姆爷》中的改编、书写及再创作反映出了康拉德对大英帝国前途命运的忧虑与希望。Based on a true event,Joseph Conrad represented the incident that several British crew members abandoned the steamship“S.S.Jeddah”and all passengers in 1880 when facing a crisis in Lord Jim.In the novel,Conrad turned the eight-year-old“S.S.Jeddah”into a rusty old ship“Patna”which continued sailing after being whitewashed,attempting to use the rusty Patna as a metaphor to imply the declining Englishness such as the spirit of British Merchant Navy and the gentleman spirit,and alert British people at the same time.That is,through the rewriting,Conrad offered his own solution,that of“polishing”and“whitewashing”it successively,to the problem of“rusty”Englishness to glorify the declining Englishness by rewriting real events.The adaptation,writing and re-creation in Lord Jim reflected Conrad s anxieties and hopes about the future and destiny of the British Empire.

关 键 词：《吉姆爷》 英国性 英国商船队精神 绅士精神 

分 类 号：I561[文学—其他各国文学]