从秩序到混沌——论品钦作品中的熵主题

From Order to Chaos: On Entropy in Pynchon's Novels

美国后现代主义代表作家托马斯·品钦的作品最突出的特点是将自然科学和人文科学的巧妙融合,尤其是把熵概念引入文学创作,作为其作品的重要主题来隐喻后现代社会人们支离破碎的文化和日益混乱的社会。本文以他的代表作之一《拍卖第49批》为例探讨了熵概念在品钦作品中的运用,并分析了熵概念进入文学领域的理论和社会背景。

As a representative postmodernist writer, Thomas Pynchon is featured by his fusion of natural science and humanities. In particular, he introduces the thermodynamic term ' entropy' into his literary works as a metaphor for dramatically fragmented culture and the chaotic postmodern society. An exploration of his masterpiece The Crying of Lot 49 demonstrates Pynchon's integration of ' entropy' into his works. The theoretical, social and literary backgrounds of the integration are also analyzed.