东京文学080917

	东京文学 DONGJING WENXUE 2008 No.9 P.40-41

Life Is a Story:An Interpretation of John Barth's "Life-story"

张红霞　

Life Is a Story:An Interpretation of John Barth's "Life-story"

Abstract：From some post-modernists' view, life has become a fictional existence in which language, rather than present, operates human experiences. Through analyzing John Barth's essay "Life-story" and the motif of "literature of exhaustion",this paper examines how this is true. Meanwhile, by relating to structuralism and Deconstruction, this paper also points out since the meaning of language lies only in the never-ending postponement of the signified, the meaning of life can only be, found in the perpetual motion of itself. Therefore, life is more often uncertain, ambiguous and unintelligible.
Keywords：fictional existence, literature of exhaustion, deconstruction, ambiguous

作者单位：张红霞（山东大学翻译学院,山东,威海,264209）　

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出版日期：2008年9月20日

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