反讽视域下《布鲁克林的荒唐事》的伦理意识体现

On the Ethical Consciousness of The Brooklyn Follies from the Perspective of Irony

美国当代著名小说家保罗·奥斯特在长篇小说《布鲁克林的荒唐事》中讲述了纽约布鲁克林社区一群普通人的生活。奥斯特通过小说文本旨在反思9·11恐怖事件和美国诸多社会问题的成因。一方面彰显了作家对和谐伦理关系的倡导,批判了以自我为中心的霸权逻辑;另一方面也暗示了在后现代主义社会中一切都是永久的悬置,实现了反讽作为后现代主义创作的一种基本叙事辞格对小说文本表层意义的超越。

In the novel The Brooklyn Follies,American contemporary writer Paul Auster has narrated a life story of the ordinary people in Brooklyn,New York.The text is ironic in terms of the novel’s title while the reality is ironic in terms of the text.The purpose of this“double irony”is to reflect upon the reasons for the September 11th terrorist incident and American social problems.On one hand,this disclos.es the author’s advocation of harmonious ethical relationship and criticizes self-centered hegemonic logic;on the other hand,it implies that everything is a perpetual suspension in the postmodern society.The em.ployment of irony,a narrative figure of postmodern literary creation,has realized transcendence over the superficial meaning of the text.