《消失的爱人》:后现代叙事语境下的先锋文本

Gone Girl: the Avant-garde Text in the Postmodern Narrative Context

后现代主义质疑并挑战一切理性的、绝对的、先验性的传统,对以往宏大的历史叙事的确定性进行反拨与解构,意图消融价值本体的终极性和主体性,它具有解构一切的怀疑态度和削平深度的策略。美国新生代作家吉莉安·弗琳的《消失的爱人》对传统叙事成规进行后现代解构,通过主体性解构、语言的碎片化、能指与所指间的断裂、非线性叙事结构等营造出一种后现代主义的叙事迷宫,做出了冒险性的叙事革命,是一部叙事独特、意义多元,具有无限延展性的开放先锋文本。

Post-modernism questions and challenges all the traditions which are rational,absolute and transcendental.It defies and deconstructs the certainty of all the grand historical narration with the aim of dispelling the ultimacy and subjectivity of value ontology.This paper attempts to apply the post-modernism poetic theory to the criticism practice of Gone Girl,a novel written by the contemporary American female writer Gillian Flynn,in order to have a glimpse of post-modernism narration by revealing this novel’s deconstruction mechanism towards the traditional narrative rules.The narrative features of postmodernism presented in Gone Girl can be seen through the deconstruction of subjectivity,fragmentation of the language,fracture between the signifier and the signified and nonlinear narrative structure.The novel Gone Girl is a vanguard text with its unique narrative technique,diversified significance and unlimited extension through an adventurous narrative revolution.