冯内古特对小说世界的解构与重建

Vonnegut’s Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Fictional World

冯内古特认为,传统小说遵循因果假设和僵化的时间与内容概念的表现手法,不适用于表现德累斯顿毁灭这样一个非逻辑性的题材。他需要一种既给读者提供可以理解的叙述,又不显得是以理性解释事件的小说形式。他尤其需要一种将持续时间视为第四维的小说形式。冯内古特在小说《五号屠场》的创作中,进行了大胆的艺术创新,解构了传统小说线性叙事模式,同时提出了一种非线性叙事模式,使历史与想像结合,现实与幻想结合、历时与共时结合,使作者成为小说文本的解释者,从而重建了一个后现代主义小说世界。

Vonnegut thinks that the traditional novel that follows the causal hypothesis and the ossified notions of time and contents is not suitable to represent the illogical subject—the Dresden destruction. He needs a novel form that can provide the readers with a narration that they can understand but does not seem to explain the events with reason. He specially needs a novel form that regards duration as the fourth dimension. In the writing of Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut makes a bold artistic innovation. He has deconstructed the linear narrative pattern of the traditional fiction and at the same time put forward a non linear narrative pattern which combines history with imagination, reality with fantasy, and the diachronic with the synchronic, makes the author the interpreter of the novel text, and thus reconstructed a postmodernist novel world.