Anne Enright’s writing evinces a nuanced sensitivity to words which nourishes a tension between the realist style and a strong self-consciousness. This is evident in The Gathering, in which the seemingly chronological occurrences weave out a dynamic pattern of narrative time. Examining Veronica’s experimentation with tense, I argue that the ongoing writing aligns with her progressive mourning. Specifically, her reconfiguration of memories in the past reveals her temporal perspectives in the present, which sheds light upon her struggle to come to terms with Liam’s death. While Liam’s ghost exposes Veronica’s wish to prolong his presence, his last journey arranged in the present tense is her reenactment of his death. Veronica’s imagination of the inaccessible past and the disruption of retrospective narration suggest an overall strategy of presentification to counter the afterwardness of her belated writing. In addition, a series of changes in Veronica’s attitudes towards sex and motherhood attest to her progress in mourning, even though mourning for one’s loss is an unsolvable issue. The temporal self-reflexivity in The Gathering, exhibited in Veronica’s manipulation of tenses and temporal perspectives, not only aligns with the Irish women writers’ battle against the amnesia imposed by the state and the church but also echoes the postmodern challenge of authenticity.

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安妮恩莱特《聚会》中的哀悼过程

安妮·恩赖特的作品表现出对文字的微妙敏感，这在现实主义风格和强烈的自我意识之间形成了一种张力。这在《聚会》中很明显，其中看似按时间顺序发生的事件编织出叙事时间的动态模式。审视维罗妮卡的时态实验，我认为正在进行的写作与她渐进式的哀悼相一致。具体来说，她对过去记忆的重新配置揭示了她现在的时间观点，这揭示了她为接受利亚姆的死而做出的努力。虽然利亚姆的鬼魂暴露了维罗妮卡想要延长他的存在的愿望，但他最后一次以现在时安排的旅程是她对他死亡的重演。维罗妮卡对难以接近的过去的想象和对回顾性叙述的破坏提出了一种呈现化的整体策略，以对抗她迟来的写作的后期。此外，维罗妮卡对性和母性态度的一系列变化证明了她在哀悼方面的进步，尽管哀悼是一个无法解决的问题。时间的自反性维罗妮卡对时态和时间视角的操纵所表现出来的聚会，不仅与爱尔兰女作家对抗国家和教会强加的健忘症的斗争相吻合，而且呼应了后现代对真实性的挑战。