诺曼·梅勒的纪实文学写作

Norman Mailer’s Non-fictional Writing

诺曼·梅勒的纪实文学写作主要由新新闻体报道和非虚构小说两部分组成,在梅勒一生的创作中占有重要的地位。本文旨在探讨梅勒在这两类文体写作上的特点以及所取得的突破。通过对梅勒相关代表作品的分析,笔者认为：在新新闻体写作中,他以明确的主观性和纯熟的小说技巧撰写新闻报道,颠覆了人们关于此种文类的传统观念。在非虚构小说的写作中,梅勒反其道而行之,由原来以真实身份的直接参与变为完全隐身,以＂自由的间接叙事＂的手法,确保了事件和人物语言的原生态,取得了理想的文学效果,在超越同类作家的同时,实现了对自己的超越。

New Journalism,or narrative non-fiction the two integral parts of Norman Mailer＇s faction writings,occupied a vital place in his writing career.This essay aims to probe into Mailer＇s idiosyncrasies in these two genres and the breakthroughs he achieved therein.Through analyses of his relevant representative works,we conclude that in his New Journalistic reportage,Mailer,by displaying an explicit subjective stance in and applying fluent fiction techniques to his writing,overturned a time-honored tradition in journalism.Mailer took a reverse approach when it came to the writing of narrative non-fiction.Instead of direct participation in his proper person,the author here is altogether absent.By means of a ＂free-indirect discourse,＂ Mailer retained the raw state of both the story and the characters while still achieving an ideal literary effect,transcending both his peers and himself.