延宕中的追寻——《拍卖第49批》中的后现代交际困惑

美国后现代主义小说家托马斯.品钦创作的《拍卖第49批》是一部深奥晦涩的小说,涉及了众多复杂的内涵与主题。它采用品钦习好使用的追寻叙述模式:女主人公奥狄芭.马斯赴美国西海岸调查皮尔斯.尹维拉雷蒂的遗产。由此发生的一切是:线索出现——中断——新线索出现——再中断——含混终局或无终局的终局。奥狄芭在追寻过程中的被动交际和交际失败体现了她在心灵上所遭遇的困扰与折磨。

TOWARD SUCCESS IN TRANSLATION TEACHING

Two working ideas for translation teaching are suggested in the present paper, aiming at enhancing students' translation competence to the greatest possible degree. One is to correlate translation competition training with what students have learned in other courses and the other is to adopt a unifying theoretical framework for translation teaching.