Research On Spatial Narration Of Tokarczuk’s Novels

Contemporary Polish female writer Olga Tokarczuk（1962--）is good at mixing national epics,popular fables,religious stories and other elements with the real world,and caring for the real world with dreams,myths and strange fantasy moments.She mimics micro history and modern daily life with profound and accurate brushwork.Insight into life forms and the rhythms of the universe in minute details.She pays close attention to the historical reality,national identity status quo,contemporary life style and even human existence of Poland,and strives to break through the sense of boundary of history,nationality,gender and culture.Her works are rich in imagery,profound implication and extensive reference.Tokarczuk’s work is filled with a series of fluid scenes that overflow the pictorial landscape of different spatial dimensions in constant change.The writer uses the pioneering fragmentary narrative mode and the postmodern writing style to present the collective characteristics of various synchronic event side schema,and refers to a series of specific,historical and mythological dimensions with its profound symbolic implication,covering many humanistic philosophical connotations.The narrative content and narrative strategy of the writer’s text have distinct spatial characteristics,which can arouse readers’ historical memory,emotional experience and perceptual experience of specific time and space,thus constructing a three-dimensional and sensible spatial complex.Therefore,this paper attempts to use spatial narrative theory to intervene in Tokarczuk’s specific text works,through the analysis of the specific spatial narrative types and spatial narrative forms in the works,to explore the spatial connotation of the writer’s works and deep humanistic philosophical metaphor and connotation.The thesis is divided into three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction briefly introduces the life of Olga Tokarczuk and her literary creation,summarizes the research status of her works at home and abroad,sorts out the research literature at home and abroad,in order to form an overall picture of the study of Tokarczuk,and briefly discusses the space theory and space narrative.The conclusion part is the review and review of the argumentation of this research.The main body consists of three chapters.The first chapter focuses on the spatial narrative types in the author’s texts,and holds that there are three overlapping spatial narrative types in the author’s works: geographical space,psychological space and cultural space.They are unfolded at three levels: physical dimension in the geographical sense,psychological dimension represented by myth and dream,and cultural dimension of landscape based on national psychology and power relations.From the perspective of the content of the text,it deliberately refers to the spiritual confusion of the polish nation after the war,the hidden worries brought by the war,people’s doubts and thinking about their own way of existence,and the writer’s reflection and breakthrough on the center-edge cultural system.The second chapter mainly analyzes the Tokarczuk’s work space in the narrative form,think the writers "fragmentation" writing,"constellation" novels narrative structure and narrative perspective of "the fourth person narrator" using a stream truncate the narrative time,time,space and events,arouse readers integral space of consciousness narrative effect,In terms of narrative strategy and narrative structure,it echoes the "orange" narrative mode and "theme-juxtaposition" narrative mode in Long Diyong’s spatial narrative theory,constituting a multi-level spatial narrative form with historical and cultural implications.The author’s fragmented cultural identity and the narrative form of star group point to the broken national psychology and mixed language and culture of Poland.The cosmopolitan perspective also indicates the fragmented information acquisition of human beings and the overall mixed culture of human beings in the context of modernization.The third chapter specifically explains the deep metaphorical content of the spatial narrative types and forms in the author’s texts.From the perspective of the writer’s national cultural identity and literary tradition,Tokarczuk’s novels not only contain the profound national character and history inherited from the Polish literary tradition,but also have a forward-looking perspective in the context of modernization and globalization.Hidden in her works are the hidden words of "historical narration",which is devoted to the national characteristics of the Polish people,the confusion of national cultural identity and the dilemma of national belonging.There is a strong intention of searching for roots in her creation motivation and text direction.At the same time,she also injected her own dialectical philosophical thinking into the double metaphor of the text,and believed that while pursuing the root of national culture,she should strive to move forward with the changing tide of The Times.The writer focuses on the dimension of human existence from a global perspective,endods continuous migration and change with metaphysical sacredness in the form of methodology,and points out that this way should be the existence of human settlement.