伊恩·麦克尤恩的长篇小说《赎罪》呈现出与传统叙事作品及其早期作品不同的异质性面貌,众多评论家从叙事伦理、历史元小说特征、心理哲学以及后现代不确定性等视角探寻了作品的深层意义,而作品内含的异质性尚没有得到充分关注。本文从以下四个方面揭示并释放《赎罪》中的矛盾异质性:叙事者身份是矛盾自反的,叙事线条是多重交织并置的,叙事情节模糊了现实与虚构的界限,叙事文本呈现出多层“寄生”状态。从矛盾异质性维度对《赎罪》进行分析,是为了解释作品中过去被忽略的根本属性,挖掘文学文本超出释义范畴的丰富意义,为探索文学作品无限丰富的内涵提供新的思路和途径。

Atonement has been highly concerned since its publication, with critical focus on the narrative ethics, metafictional and historical significance, psychological and postmodernist characteristics. The essential attributes of “heterogeneity” in the novel haven’t been given enough attention. This paper attempts to disclose and analyze the “heterogeneity” in Atonement from four respects: the contradiction of the identity of the narrator, the complexity of narrative lines, the ambiguity of reality and fiction in the plot, and the “parasite” condition of intertexts. To analyze Atonement from the view of “heterogeneity” is to discover the essential attributes ignored in the literary works. It is hoped that such an analysis may open up infinite and boundless space of structure and meaning, and contribute to a more creative and multiple understanding and interpretation of language and literature.