解读《天秤星座》后现代叙事特点

On the Postmodern Narrative Qualities of Libra

作为美国文坛的重量级作家德里罗的代表作之一,《天秤星座》一经发表就被誉为后现代文学的经典之作。小说以肯尼迪遇刺为题材,书写了美国后现代社会中人们的无归属感和异化感。作为一部典型的后现代小说,其文体风格和叙述策略都具有典型的后现代特征,本文从该小说的叙事视角、叙述结构和人物话语表现形式几个方面来探讨这部后现代经典之作的叙述特点。

As one of the materpieces for Don Delillo,Libra was regarded as a classic postmodern novel once after its publication.Based on Kennedy assassination,this novel mainly deals with the isolation and dissimilation feelings for the American citizens.As a representative postmodern novel,Libra’s stylistic features and narrative strategies are both quite typical.This thesis will discuss its narrative angles,its narrative structure and its dialogue expressions in order to understand Libra’s postmodern narrative technique as a whole.