《拍卖第49批》中内心秩序的空间幻象

The Spatial Illusion of the Spiritual Order in The Crying of Lot 49

本文分析托马斯·品钦的小说《拍卖第49批》,通过考察女主人公俄狄帕建立内心秩序把握现实的思维模式,揭示其中所隐含的双重空间幻象,以及由此折射出的该小说对现代主义向内转写作策略的反思。同时,本文结合战后美国社会的郊区化所导致的城市衰败,以及城市种族和阶级的空间隔离问题,进一步探讨俄狄帕的思维方式反映的中产阶级郊区的意识形态,揭示其如何导致对特里斯特罗代表的城市底层边缘群体的误读。

This paper examines spatial double illusion of the female protagonist Oedipa in Thomas Pynchon＇s The Crying of Lot 49. The dual illusion characterizes her way of thinking in the process of her pursuit of the spiritual order, and indicates the limits of the modernist writing strategy of internal turn. By introducing the historical background of city crisis caused by suburbanization and spatial segregation in the post-war American society, the paper further explores the middle-class suburban ideology in Oedipa＇s thoughts which has made her misunderstand the lower class and marginal groups in the city ghettos represented by Tristero.