不可靠叙述:《爱情是谬误》反讽意义的呈现方式

Unreliable Narration： Love Is a Fallacy＇s Irony and its Presentation

“不可靠叙述”是当代叙事理论中的一个概念，针对“不可靠叙述”有修辞方法和认知（建构）两种研究方法。本文所采用的是修辞方法的“不可靠叙述”。本文以美国作家马克斯·舒尔曼的反讽叙事短篇《爱情是谬误》为文本，通过对其中所运用的不可靠叙述策略和所表达的反讽意义之间关联的分析，指出，不可靠叙述是呈现该文本反讽意义的方式。不可靠叙述和反讽意义分别表现在两个不同层面：叙述者话语的不可靠呈现出文本的表层反讽；叙述者价值判断的不可靠呈现出文本的深层反讽。

Unreliable narration is a concept in modem narratology, about which there exist two researching methods： cognitive method and rhetori- cal method. This paper employs the latter. Through the analysis of the novel Love Is a Fallacy by American humor writer Max Shulrnan, the paper illustrates unreliable narration as the way of presenting irony in Love Is a Fallacy. The unreliable narration and ironyof the novel behave in two aspects respectively： the unreliable context and its surface irony, the distorted value and its deep irony.