谁会为一个哲学观点而自杀?——论拉瑞·尼文《非常道》的量子叙事

Quantum Narrative in Larry Niven's"All the Myriad Ways"

拉瑞·尼文是美国当代有影响的硬科幻小说作家。短篇小说《非常道》通过建构一个量子世界,演示了多重世界阐释视角下的生命伦理危机。量子理论与叙事学的关联可以从三个方面进行探索:模拟论诗学、故事世界的叠加与塌陷、多路径叙事。量子力学是文学叙事创新的一个灵感源泉。

Larry Niven is an influential contemporary American writer of hard science fiction.In his short story,'All the Myriad Ways',Niven demonstrates the crisis of life ethics from the perspective of Many Worlds Interpretation by portraying a quantum world.Quantum theory can shed new light on narratology in three aspects: simulation poetics,superposition and collapse of story worlds,and forking-path narrative.Quantum mechanics proves to be another source of inspiration for narrative innovation.