美国当代作家安妮·普鲁的长篇小说《船讯》讲述了一个纽约“三流记者”奎尔的心路历程。奎尔的生活中充满失败,在经历父母双亡、妻子背叛的苦难之后,他携女儿和姑妈一起回到祖居地纽芬兰,从此开始了逐渐发现自我进而建构自我的艰苦历程。以小说中的绳结意象为线索,能够揭示出主人公通过空间移位重返家园,并借助对记忆的开启、述说、解脱获得自我主体认同的内在主题。 American contemporary writer Anne Proud novel “Boat News” tells the story of a New York “third-rate reporter ” Guell mentality. Quail’s life was full of failures. After experiencing the death of both parents and his wife, he returned to his native Newfoundland with his daughters and aunt and began a painstaking journey of discovering oneself and then constructing oneself. Using clumsy images in clues as clues, we can reveal that the protagonist returns to his homeland through spatial displacement, and through the opening up of the memory, he expresses and relieves himself of the inner theme of obtaining the identity of his subject.