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DiaryofaBadYear:TheMultiplevoicesfrom Modernism toPostModernism

ZHU Xiaoyuan   

  1. (SchoolofForeignLanguages,YunnanNormalUniversity,Kunming650500,China)
  • Online:2013-09-26 Published:2013-09-26

Abstract: DiaryofaBadYear,byJ.M.Coetzeeandpublishedin2007,completelydeconstructsthetraditionallinearnarrativepatternandexploresaninnovativeartforminnovel.Withthehelpofelementsofmodernismandpostmodernism,mixingfictionandnonfictionnarrativemethodstogether,thisnoveldemonstratesapolyphonicworldbyusingauniquenarrativepattern,dispellingthedepthperception,historicalsenseandthesubjectivity,thensteppingintoapolyphonicworld.Bydiscussingthepolyphonicstructure,analyzingthemultiplevoicesamongcharacters,andtheexploringinnermusicalstructure,itaimsatdiscoveringthestigmataofmodernismandpostmodernism.

Key words: DiaryofaBadYear, modernismandpostmodernism, polyphonicstructure, polyphony, dialogism

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