边缘叙事策略及其表征的历史——朱利安·巴恩斯《十又二分之一章世界史》之新解

Marginal Narrative Strategies and the Represented Histories:New Interpretation on Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 101 /2Chapters

英国后现代巅峰形式实验大师朱利安·巴恩斯发表于1989年的《十又二分之一章世界史》中极具实验性和革新性。小说中,他不仅将看似互不相连的故事杂糅,形成反写实的非线性叙事,而且还借鉴新历史主义的边缘叙事策略颠覆占据主导地位的叙事模式,如:单一主体叙事和理性叙事。作者通过边缘叙述声音和非理性解构诸如历史的进步说和乌托邦说等西方宏大历史叙事,向读者呈现出一种新的历史阐释。

As a master of postmodern formal experimentation,Julian Barnes shows striking experimentalness and innovativeness in A History of the World in 101 /2Chapters（ 1989）. In the novel,he not only combines seemingly unconnected stories,forming antirealistic nonlinear narrative,but also employs marginal narrative strategies of New Historicism to deconstruct dominant narrative modes like single central narrative and rational narrative. The argument is that,by mainly utilizing marginal narrative voices and unreason,Barnes decenters such western historical metanarratives as the narrative of progress and utopia,and thus offers readers a new interpretation of history.