不可靠叙述和多主线叙事——朱利安·巴恩斯小说《终结感》叙事策略探析

Unreliable Narration and Multiple-lined Narrative——Narrative Techniques in Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending

英国当代著名作家朱利安·巴恩斯凭小说《终结感》获得了2011年英国布克文学奖,进一步拉近了他与中国读者的亲密接触。该小说的主题复杂,笔法精湛,构思巧妙,其叙事结构尤为独特。通过对其不可靠叙述和多主线叙事等策略的探索性试验,巴恩斯使该小说达到了后现代语境下叙事技巧和主题的完美统一。

The famous British contemporary writer Julian Bames＇s latest novel The Sense of an Ending won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011, which draws more attention to Barnes and his works from Chinese readers. The theme of the novel is complex theme, the writing skill is exquisite, and its narrative structure is particularly unique. Through the exploratory experiment of unreliable narration and narrative strategies such as multiple lines, the novel reaches the perfect unity of narrative techniques and themes under Postmodern Context.