梯姆·奥布莱恩的创伤艺术——《林中之湖》的嵌套叙述和框架叙述评析

On Tim O'Brien's Art of Trauma——Embedded and Frame Narratives of In the Lake of the Woods

当代美国作家梯姆.奥布莱恩的小说《林中之湖》不仅在文本的不稳定性、戏仿的运用等方面进一步推进了元小说的创作实践,更重要的是将文本嵌套叙述和框架叙述的运用与创伤表现相结合。从这一方面对该小说进行评析,展现了奥布莱恩是如何将个人的创伤叙事延伸为对于民族集体暴行的揭示,从而以一种独特的方式对当代美国的历史文化进行批判。

As the most successful novel of Tim O＇ Brien,ln the Lake of the Woods carries further two meta -fictive practices,i, e. generic instability and parody. Most important of all, the novel relates embedded and frame narratives to trauma representation. This paper analyzes how O＇ Brien has managed to extend the representation of personal trauma to the exploration of collective atrocity through the relevance of narrative levels to his own subjective experiences, and thus launch a criticism to contemporary American history and culture.