巴塞尔姆兄弟的文字绘画与后现代美国肖像

The Word Pictures of Barthelme Brothers and the Portrayal of the Postmodern America

唐纳德·巴塞尔姆和弗雷德里克·巴塞尔姆兄弟的小说,各自探索不同的艺术表现途径。本论文围绕他们各自的代表作《白雪公主》和《皎洁明月》,主要讨论三个相关的问题:一是盛行于美国的观念艺术,尤其是抽象表现主义,对巴塞尔姆兄弟的小说创作产生了怎样的影响;二是这种影响如何表现在他们的创作理念和实践中;三是兄弟俩完全不同的表现形式背后的共同基础。本文认为,巴塞尔姆兄弟具有代表性,他们的小说代表了从20世纪60年代到80年代美国后现代主义文学发展中出现的值得关注的变化,但两人殊途同归,共同为后现代美国社会做了不恭的画像。

Both Donald Barthelme and his brother Frederick Barthelme seek to give a fictional representation of contemporary America,but each in his own way.This paper,taking as cases for analyzing their representative works Snow White and Moon Deluxe,aims at a discussion of three related questions: 1,what influences conceptual art prevailing in America,especially abstract expressionism,has exerted on Barthelme brothers;2,how do the ideas from experimental art take shape in the fictional practice of the brothers;and 3,what common ground do they hold beneath their radically different ways of representation.The paper argues that the Barthelmes represent some interesting change in the period spanning from 1960s to 1980s in postmodern American literature,yet they have similarly drawn an ugly picture of the postmodern American society.