《昨日之岛》中的讽拟叙事和共同体建构

Satirical Narration and Community Construction in Island of Yesterday

小说《昨日之岛》是一部讽拟的后现代骑士传奇。这部小说戏拟了骑士的成长之路和冒险之旅,反讽了充满情欲修辞学意味的骑士之爱,凸显了语言在意义建构中的作用,也赞颂了人类为追寻真理、探索新知而进行的种种努力。主人公的人生之路贯穿着数个类型各异的共同体,他在这些共同体中完成蜕变,并实现了自我和共同体的协同发展。小说中的历史书写,充满对历史记录的质疑和反讽,以琐碎、边缘、充满疑问的“历史编纂”来拷问历史的动机、历程和效果,通过讽拟叙事否定了战争、否定了贵族荣誉,最终也否定了关于历史的宏大叙述,表达了作者的后现代立场。

The novel Island of Yesterday is a satirical postmodern legend of knight.This novel depicts the growth and adventure of knights,satirizes the love of knights by lust and rhetoric,highlights the role of language in sense-making,and praises the efforts of human beings to pursue truth and explore new knowledge.The protagonist’s road of life runs through several different types of communities in which the protagonist completes metamorphosis and realizes the coordinated development of self and the community.The historical writing in the novel is full of questioning and irony to historical records.It uses trivial,marginal,and questioning“historical compilation”to interrogate the motive,course,and effect of history.Through satirical narration,it denies war,nobility honor,and finally denies the grand narration about history,expressing the author’s post-modern position.