破碎世界中的情感空白——论《恶棍来访》的碎片艺术

Emotional Blank in the Broken World——Discussion on the Art of Fragmentation in A Visit from the Goon Squad

碎片化,后现代主义的一个重要特征,其产生与后现代破碎的美国社会是密不可分的。许多伟大的后现代主义作家钟爱碎片艺术,相信碎片形象地反映了后现代美国社会荒诞分散、支离破碎的特征,体现了后现代社会人们日益孤立、精神分裂的生存状态。詹妮弗·伊根,当代著名小说家,在其2011年荣获普利策小说奖的小说《恶棍来访》中,也精湛地运用了这一碎片化艺术。从跳跃的时空叙事、破碎的情节结构、非连续的PPT呈现形式等方面分析了碎片化艺术在小说《恶棍来访》中的运用,揭示了当代美国人在碎片化的社会以及先进的科学技术影响下,人与人之间情感关系的隔阂和空白的社会悲剧。

As one of the most important characteristics of postmodernism, fragmentation＇ s generation is inseparable from the broken postmodern American society. Many great postmodernists are particularly in favor of the art of fragmentation, and they believe in that fragmentation vividly reflects the absurdity, decentralization, disconnection of postmodern American society and implies the living state of isolation and schizophrenia of postmodern people. Jennifer Egan, a famous modern American novelist, also exquisitely employs the art of fragmentation in her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, the winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011. From the aspects of bouncing time-space narration, broken plot structure and discontinuous PowerPoint presentation, this paper analyzes the application of the art of fragmentation in the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad , and reveals the interpersonal emotional gap and blank social tragedy of American contemporary people under the influences of fragmentary society and advanced science and technology