《麦田里的守望者》叙事的不确定性

Indeterminacy of the Narration of The Catcher in the Rye

美国经典成长小说《麦田里的守望者》塑造了一名叛逆而又执着的少年形象,但小说并不像许多读者和批评家认为的那样是作者对读者的直接叙事。相反,小说在叙事上呈现出一种后现代的"不确定性":不成熟的霍尔顿是个"不可靠的叙事者";受叙者"你"的身份有着令人生疑的两种诠释;而二层叙事结构更是进一步增强了整个文本的"不确定性"。不确定叙述是叙事修辞中不可或缺的一种方式,它让读者开始发挥自己的能动性,参与到与作者的互动当中。

As a classic American initiation novel, The Catcher in the Rye presents a resistant but innocent image of a young man. However, this novel, contrary to many readers and critics＂ belief, is not a direct narration conveyed by the author to the reader. Holden the unreliable narrator, ＂you＂ the unidentified narratee and the indeterminate narrative form together decide the post-modern indeterminacy inherent within this novel＇s narration, which serves as an indispensable narrative rhetoric technique to involve the reader into the interactivitv with the novel＇s author.