This paper analyses the self-conscious narrative strategies in Mark Gevisser’s Lost and Found in Johannesburg (2014), strategies which draw attention to the act of writing as a way of both voicing and speaking back to his own memory. Lost and Found connects the concept of ‘coming home’ to the act of writing and the reconfiguration of the narrative self. It is about overlapping types of homecoming: the desire to feel at home in South Africa, the wish to find narrative forms that accommodate the telling of this desire, and the literary interpolation of selfhood that reflects these impulses. Gevisser’s nostalgia allows him to both inhabit and critique the affection he feels for his childhood. The sense of ‘homecoming’ depicted in the text is a return to the present and the active reconfiguration of memory. My analysis draws out three aspects which illustrate the relationship between memory, writing, and narrative homecoming in Lost and Found: the cartography of childhood; the literary afterlife Ivan Vladislavić’s Portrait with Keys (2007) finds in the text; and finally, the way that Teju Cole’s Open City (2012) deepens the text’s questioning of memory and nostalgia by complicating the relationship between the narrative and narrator. In Lost and Found, then, representing memory and homecoming in post-apartheid South Africa becomes a question of the boundaries of writing itself.

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“这就是回家的歧义”：约翰内斯堡失物招领中的写作和记忆

本文分析了马克·格维瑟 (Mark Gevisser) 于 2014 年在约翰内斯堡的《失物招领》(Lost and Found in Johannesburg) 中的自我意识叙事策略，这些策略将人们的注意力引向写作行为，作为表达和回应他自己记忆的一种方式。失物招领将“回家”的概念与写作行为和叙事自我的重新配置联系起来。它是关于回家的重叠类型：在南非有宾至如归的感觉的愿望，希望找到能够满足这种愿望的叙述的叙事形式，以及反映这些冲动的自我的文学插值。Gevisser 的怀旧情绪让他既可以安居又可以批判他对童年的感情。文中所描绘的“回家”的感觉是对当下的回归和记忆的积极重构。我的分析从三个方面来说明《失物招领处》中记忆、写作和叙事回家之间的关系：童年的制图；文学来世伊万弗拉迪斯拉维奇的肖像与钥匙（2007）在文本中找到；最后，Teju Cole 的《开放城市》（2012）通过复杂化叙述者和叙述者之间的关系，加深了文本对记忆和怀旧的质疑。在《失物招领处》中，代表种族隔离后南非的记忆和回家成为了写作本身边界的问题。Teju Cole 的《开放城市》（2012）通过复杂化叙述者和叙述者之间的关系，加深了文本对记忆和怀旧的质疑。在《失物招领处》中，代表种族隔离后南非的记忆和回家成为了写作本身边界的问题。Teju Cole 的《开放城市》（2012）通过复杂化叙述者和叙述者之间的关系，加深了文本对记忆和怀旧的质疑。在《失物招领处》中，代表种族隔离后南非的记忆和回家成为了写作本身边界的问题。