Abstract Erwin Mortier’s acclaimed debut novel Marcel, first published nearly twenty years ago, tells the story of a Flemish family haunted by a dark past: the involvement of several members in the wartime collaboration with the German occupier. The novel has usually been read as a narrative of reconciliation, showing the often painful process of successive generations gradually gaining some understanding of the past and coming to terms with it, before being able finally to lay its guilty weight to rest. However, a close reading and historial contextualisation of Marcel reveals a much more complex picture, casting doubt both on the accuracy of the characters’ understanding and the sincerity of their intentions. This article is the first to offer a rival interpretation of Mortier’s novel, proposing that, rather than recognising their guilty past, the characters may be unable or unwilling to acknowledge it as such, and could instead be poised to sow the seeds of its continuation and repetition.

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``呼呼呼呼呼呼喊叫''：Erwin Mortier的Marcel（1999）中的模棱两可，不可靠和不确定性

摘要欧文·莫尔蒂（Erwin Mortier）著名的首部小说《马塞尔（Marcel）》大约在20年前首次出版，讲述了一个佛兰芒人的家庭被黑暗的过去困扰的故事：几名成员参与了战时与德国占领者的合作。这部小说通常被理解为和解的叙事，显示了历代后代的痛苦过程，逐渐使他们对过去有了一定的了解，并与之融洽相处，然后才终于有罪不罚。然而，仔细阅读和对Marcel进行历史化的语境化揭示了更为复杂的情况，这使人们对角色理解的准确性和意图的诚意都产生了怀疑。本文是第一个对莫蒂埃的小说提出相反解释的文章，提出这一观点，而不是承认他们的有罪历史，