略论后现代主义寓言的叙事特征——评唐纳德·巴塞尔姆的《亡父》

Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father and the Characteristics of Narratives in Postmodernist Allegory

寓言是后现代主义时期一种命定的文学表现形式;同时,在后现代主义语境下,寓言又表现出有别于以往的叙事特征。本文拟结合对唐纳德.巴塞尔姆的《亡父》的文本解读,探讨后现代主义时期寓言形态的变化及其与后现代精神的契合。

Allegory is a ＂predestined＂ literary form for postmodernist literature; meanwhile, in the postmodernist context, it exhibits a series of narrative characteristics. Through a close reading of Donald Barthelme＇s The Dead Father, this essay explores the new forms postmodernist allegory assumes.