The Trauma Writing In John Banville's The Sea

John Banville(1945-),a famous contemporary Irish writer,whose Booker prize-winning work "The Sea" is a memoir of interior monologue,the protagonist Max Morden returns to Cedar to escape the pain and loss of his wife and recall his past life,including the poor and difficult life in his childhood,acquaintance with the wealthy Grace family and his marriage life with Anna.The novel mixes multiple stories,subtly reproduces important moments in life,and represent a story about death,memories and traumatic stories.This paper take the novel "The Sea" as a study object,explores the traumatic writing of this novel by means of various critical methods such as trauma theory,ethical literary criticism and narratology,and analyzes the relationship between traumatic memory and identity construction,explores the strategies of traumatic narrative,and trace meaning of traumatic writing.The value of writing is to provide a way for people who are struggling in pain to heal wounds and think about the realistic meaning behind the pain.The introduction part briefly introduces the writer John Banville and his literary achievements,and roughly summarizes the main content and storyline of the novel.The literature review of John Banville at home and abroad was sorted and classified,and the research significance and method of this article were cleared.The first chapter analyzes the relationship between traumatic memory and identity construction by combining related theories such as traumatic theory and literary ethical criticism theory.Firstly,the negative impact of childhood disordered family environment on children's psychology was analyzed.Childhood trauma caused the serious identity crisis of Max and Chloe.It then analyzes the identity changes that accompany the death trauma,causing the mental dilemma of the patient Anna,and the survivor Max.Under the trauma of childhood "homelessness" and death is a metaphor of the colonial history of the Irish nation for several centuries.The personal trauma implies the trauma of the Irish nation's loss of homeland and how to construct national identity.Banville's writing extends from Irishness to modern cultural context,the writer creates a fusion of nationality and globality.The second chapter uses the related concepts of narratology and poetic novels to explore the traumatic narrative strategies in novels from the perspectives of narrative perspective,time and space construction and language characteristics.The whole novel is presented through Max's limited internal focus perspective.Self-memory under internal focus reproduces the ambivalence of Max's desire to speak traumatically but ceases to speak.Other people's memories under internal focus are obscured by the limitation of perspective,adding other characters opacity and layering of the novel.In terms of narrative time and space,the fragmented time coincides with the trauma memories of Max's constant flashback.The individual space as a container of trauma memories carries miserable memories,and the flow of space relieves the inner pain of the protagonist.Poetic language is a manifestation of Banville's distinctive personal style,which shows the trauma of the novel poetically through the creation of images and the creation of mood.The third chapter is to explore the meaning of trauma writing.One of the values of trauma writing is the recovery of trauma.The first section analyzes the protagonist's different choices of trauma combined with Judith Herman's theory of trauma recovery.Anna obtain the trauma reconciliation by facing it bravely.Max recalled the narrative to increase the possibility of healing the trauma and explained the methods and ways of trauma recovery.The second section explores the value of trauma writing.Although the protagonist who has experienced trauma is painful,he also has a deep understanding and thinking of self and life in anxiety.The novel displays the living conditions of different characters,which shows that there is no clear boundary between life and death.The author expresses a deep understanding of self,life and death,and highlights the value and significance of the work.The conclusion part summarizes the full-text viewpoint,puts the trauma writing of"The Sea" in the writer's overall writing career and Irish literature to consider,and explains the reason why Banville is committed to trauma writing.Trauma writing is not only the inheritance of the literary tradition and it represents individual experience.The display of the course is also the concern of all human beings in the context of modern culture.From this perspective,we can better understand the modern meaning of trauma and the creative concept of the writer.