论《木匠的哥特式古屋》叙述的不确定性

On the Indeterminacy of William Gaddis's The Carpenter's Gothic

美国后现代主义小说家威廉·加迪斯在他的小说《木匠的哥特式古屋》中运用悖论式的矛盾、并置、非连续性、随意性等后现代主义不确定性写作手法有效地揭示出美国社会中政府、宗教机构、大公司和媒体为发横财相互渗透的状况 ,描写了一个无理性、非正义、充满混乱的美国后现代社会。加迪斯成功地把小说中整个不确定的叙事结构变成了对战后美国社会的巨大隐喻 ,折射出一个充满混乱、不确定的迷宫般的西方后现代世界。

The American postmodernist writer William Gaddis employs the postmodernist technique of indeterminacy in his fictional writing. This constitutes the paradoxical contradiction, the juxtaposition, the discontinuity and the randomness in his novel The Carpenter's Gothic, offering an indictment of the interpenetration between government, religious institution, business and media in the quest for big profits in the American society . Gaddis thus succeeds in turning the whole structure of his novels into a huge metaphor of the post-industrial United States, refracting a labyrinthine capitalist world haunted by ambiguity, indeterminacy and contingency.