《奥蕾克斯与克雷克》:一部后现代科幻小说

Oryx and Crake: A Postmodernist Science Fiction

作为一种艺术思潮,后现代主义在小说领域的具体体现之一为高雅严肃小说与通俗小说之间界线的消失,科幻小说因迎合了后现代诗学的这一要求而深受关注。传统的科幻小说在汲取了后现代主义的一些艺术技巧之后,变成具有后现代特色的科幻小说。加拿大作家玛格丽特·阿特伍德的《奥蕾克斯与克雷克》就是这样一部后现代科幻小说。她把传统的科幻主题与戏仿、时间的纷乱、元小说、反讽等后现代主义的创作手法相结合,为科幻小说在二十一世纪的发展指明了方向。

As a mode of literary writing, postmodernism has miscellaneous features. Among these features, the erosion of the boundaries between highbrow and popular fictions is generally regarded as the most remarkable one. Since science fiction appeals to such a requirement of postmodernist poetics, it attracts more attention in the postmodernist era. With the writer＇ s application of some postmodernist techniques, traditional science fiction has turned into a new literary paradigm-- postmodernist science fiction. Oryx and Crake, written by the internationally-acclaimed Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, is just a good example. The author combines the traditional motif with postmodernist techniques （such as parody, the uncertainty of time, irony, etc. ）, and thus indicates a new trend of science fiction in the 21st century.