摘要
美国后现代派作家威廉·加斯的《隧道》是一部颇有争议的小说。语言哲学家出身的加斯,特别看重文字和符号的重要性,他以富有实验性的艺术技巧,给读者展现了一个令人眼花缭乱的文字世界。《隧道》展现不同语境下语言的本体性区别,强调情节的缺乏和人物的沉迷语言,构建出浮华的文字世界和迷离的虚构现实;小说还特别注重语言的诗性节奏、隐喻象征和戏仿等手段,营造出极刻意的混乱,呈现出令人眩晕的非线性叙述结构;由此,《隧道》充分体现了加斯坚持艺术家作为"方法论者",挖掘小说自身价值、摒弃其社会道德意义、探寻理想读者的唯美艺术倾向。
The Tunnel, written by American postmodern writer William Gass, is a controversial metafiction. As a language philosopher, Gass emphasizes words and signs so much that, with experimental artistic techniques, Gass shows to readers a bedazzling world of words. The Tunnel tends to explore the ontological difference of plot and indulgence of languag reality. It also deals with the novel, language in various contexts, focusing on the lack of e in the novel, showing the fancy world of words and mazy fictional purposed disorder and bedazzling non-linear narrative style of the emphasis on poetic language, metaphorical symbols and parody, etc. Thus, The Tun- nel fully illustrates Gass＇ s aesthetic focus on the role of artists as ＂methodologists＂ to pursue the value of the novel itself, the disregard of its social and moral significance and expectation of ideal readers.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2012年第5期109-117,共9页
Foreign Literature Studies
