越界的叙事者——《微暗的火》中的可能世界模型

Border-Crossing Narrator:Possible Worlds Model in Pale Fire

"可能世界理论"作为后经典叙事学的一个分支,对虚构性命题提出了叙事学角度的全新解释,有利于对文本嵌套模式进行叙事分层的讨论,为元小说文本提供了新的解构模型。在《微暗的火》中,纳博科夫运用"隐喻"和"不可靠叙事"等种种叙事手段,在彼岸世界和此岸世界间架起了一座虚构的桥梁。本文将运用可能世界理论对《微暗的火》的故事世界进行划分,由此探讨叙事者嵌套层级以及各个世界的连通关系,揭示其叙事技巧的后现代特征。

As one branch of post-classical narratology, the possible world theory offers a new narrative explanation of fiction,which is instrumental in the discussion of an embedded text,offering meta-fiction a new model of deconstruction. In Pale Fire,by using narrative methods like metaphor and Unreliable Narration,Nabokov erects a bridge between 'other worlds'and 'this shore'. In light of the possible worlds theory,this paper divides the fictional worlds in Pale Fire,thus exploring in depth the embedded layers of the narrator and the corresponding relationship among the passible worlds,revealing the postmodernization of its narrative techniques.