《鬼作家》中的后现代叙事策略及其意义

The Postmodern Narrative Strategies in The Ghost Writer and Their Significance

从后现代主义视角解读美国犹太裔作家菲利普·罗斯的代表作《鬼作家》。深入分析后现代叙事策略去经典、互文性和元小说在作品中的表现。在此基础上剖析三种后现代叙事策略应用的意义:罗斯应用去经典改写《安妮日记》,借此展现其艺术理想——呈现犹太人的复杂性;通过互文性嵌入其他作品,扩大文本的意义,探讨作家群体面临的普遍问题,展现他对艺术家的态度;利用元小说暴露小说的虚构性,探究现实与艺术的关系,展现其独有的创作艺术观——扮演的艺术。

Philip Roth's The G host Writer is comprehended from the perspective of postmodernism. Based on the analysis of the representations of decanonization,intertextuality and metafiction in The G host Writer,the writer explores the application significance of the postmodern narrative strategies. Philip Roth employs decanonization in the way of rewriting The Diary of Anne Frank with the purpose of articulating his artistic ambition: to present the complexity of the Jew s. He adopts intertextuality to represent his attitudes tow ards the artists attempting to extend the significance of the work and probe into their common problems. The use of metafiction exposes the artifice of the fiction,arouses the study of the relationship between art and reality,and displays Roth's unique art of impersonation.