《迷失在开心馆中》的后现代元空间——一个空间批评的新视角

The Postmodern Meta-Space in“Lost in the Funhouse”:A Spatial Criticism View

美国作家约翰·巴思的短篇小说《迷失在开心馆中》被认为是后现代“元小说”创作的经典文本,其创作手法、小说结构、创新意义常常引人关注。题名中出现的地点“开心馆”作为作品情节发生的主要地点,具有极为独特的空间感,包括了空间探索性与迷惑性的杂糅,空间“探索”的内转向以及空间中标志与方向的消失。研究从“开心馆”这一空间入手,分析该小说在后现代语境中对空间的重塑,阐明《迷失在开心馆中》中的“后现代元空间”所具有的独特性,为文学作品中的空间研究提供更为深广的思路。

The short story Lost in The Funhouse of American writer John Bath has been taken as a typical work of postmodern“meta-fiction”.Its writing technique,constructions and creative meaning also draw people s attention.The“Funhouse”in the title has its specific spatial meaning,for it is the main place where the plot happens,including the mixture of the exploration and the confusing,the inward turning of the“exploration”in the space and the disappearance of the mark and the orientation in the space.This study begins with the analyzing the“Funhouse”in order toexplore the“remodeling”of indoor space in the novel under the postmodern context,and to illuminate the uniqueness of postmodern“meta-space”,which can provide a more profound way of analyzing the space in literary works.