《10 1/2 章世界史》的非自然叙事美学

The Aesthetics of Unnatural Narratives in A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters

《101/2章世界史》中,朱利安·巴恩斯超越传统自然叙事常规,大胆地展开非自然叙事美学实验,采用了狂欢化叙述声音、错乱的叙事时序、蒙太奇式叙事空间和非典型化人物塑造。一方面,凭借这些反模仿的非自然叙事,巴恩斯在丰富传统小说叙事形式多样性的同时,推进了英国小说的非自然叙事进程,并以其独特的反传统文学创作颠覆了“小说之死”的预言;另一方面,通过革新传统写实小说封闭单一的叙事结构,作者挑战了读者的既定认知框架和阐释范式,引导读者重新审视传统历史小说再现的线性化历史的真实性,为读者期待的线性化世界历史提供了消解式注解。

In A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters,Julian Barnes transcends traditional unnatural narrative conventions,and bravely implements such aesthetic experimentation of unnatural narratives as carnivalized narrative voices,disordered narrative time order,montage of narrative space and untypical characterization.On the one hand,via these anti-mimetic unnatural narratives,Barnes enriches the diversity of narrative forms of traditional novels,promotes the unnatural narrative process of British novels,and overthrows the prediction of“The Death of Novel”with his peculiar anti-traditional literary creation;on the other hand,via innovating the closed single narrative structure of traditional realist novels,the author challenges readers established cognitive framework and hermeneutic paradigm,guides readers to reexamine the truth of a linear world history represented by traditional historical novels,and thus provides readers with such a footnote that falls short of their expectation of a linear world history.