斯威夫特的《洼地》在历史与故事之间自由穿梭。在叙事内容上,作者选取童话、民间传说与侦探故事等。在叙事形式上采用“连环结构”、叙事时间闪回、互文及多种叙事体裁等策略。以故事为切入点,作者对传统历史叙事提出了挑战,不但可以拓宽读者看待历史的空间和纬度,还可以帮助迷惘的当代人在流动不羁的历史语境中思考和探索生活的本质。 Swift’s “depression” is a free shuttle between history and story. In the narrative content, the author selects fairy tales, folk tales and detective stories. In the form of narrative, “chain structure ”, flashback narrative time, intertextuality and a variety of narrative genres strategy. From the point of view of the story, the author poses a challenge to the traditional historical narration, which not only broadens the readers’ view of the space and latitude of history, but also helps the confused contemporary people to think and explore the essence of life in the unobtrusive historical context.