后现代文化与作家境况

后现代文化是一个特殊的现象,它的诸多特征对于文学作者的影响是巨大的。“作者是什么”、“谁是作者”成为应当正视和关注的话题。在商品社会条件下成为艺术品复制者,在人类精神的夜半作为“拾垃圾者”,在语言游戏中的作者之死,大众文化时代的平庸写作,沦为语言狂欢和文化市场的同谋等等,应该说是比较准确地描述出了后现代作者的形象。文学的状况与作者的境况是密切相连的,后现代文化中的作家境况其实也是人类精神状态的一种反映。

The Culture of Postmodernism and the Author's Condition

The culture of postmodernism is a special phenomenon,which has a tremendous influence on literary authors.Such questions as what an author is and who the author is should be of a great consideration.After the deconstruction of the traditional author as a rational subject,it is very hard to give a distinct definition to an author of postmodernism.The following images may better describe the new roles of a postmodernist author,namely,a duplicator of artwork in the commercial society,a spiritual garbage collector,the death of author,a mediocre being in popular writing,and participator in language games and culture market.Literature is closely related with its author.The condition of the postmodernist author is a reflection of human existence.