《第二十二条军规》小说和电影叙事的比较_英语论文

From Fiction to Film: Narration of Joseph Heller's Catch-22

摘要

二战后美国著名的荒诞派作家约瑟夫·海勒的代表作《第二十二条军规》描写了皮亚诺撒岛的荒诞世界。作者有意以支离破碎的叙事结构映射现代社会的混乱和疯狂。本文从对比小说和电影这两种不同艺术形式出发，分析海勒的这部作品和尼克尔斯改编的同名电影叙事手法的不同特点。通过列举两种艺术表现形式对战争时期该岛上发生的荒诞事例的具体描述，得出结论：虽然电影创造性地采用了倒叙和反复等不同于小说的叙事技巧，但电影在形式上的偏离正是为实现与原作主题内涵一致性的创新。

关键词：《第二十二条军规》；叙事；小说；电影

Abstract

Joseph Heller, the post-WWII American novelist of absurdity depicts a crazy world in the Island of Pianosa in his representative works Catch 22. The author intends to present in his novel a crazy and chaotic modern society by using fragmental narrative structures. Starting from contrasting the two different art forms of film and fiction, this paper analyses the distinctive narrative features of Heller's Catch 22 and the same-titled film directed by Mike Nichols. Through specific descriptions of the absurd incidents on the wartime island in the two art forms, it concludes: although film has adopted such techniques as flashback and repetition which differs from those in the novel, it is the very proof that the formal deviation is just Nichols' innovative attempt to achieve thematic agreement with Heller's Catch 22.  

Key words:  Catch-22; narration; fiction; film