ABSTRACT

This article will analyse two of Ali Smith’s latest books, Artful (2012) and How to Be Both (2014), through the lenses of metamodernism and the return of the ‘real’ to fiction. It analyses the narrative strategies that are used to reintroduce the real into fiction, such as the purposeful and ambiguous blurring of generic boundaries and metamodern uses of intertextuality, ekphrasis and intermediality. Moreover, this article will engage with the contrast between the ‘real’ in fiction and the ‘real’ as constituted by the World Wide Web. Ultimately, this article will claim that literature’s access to the ‘real’ does not reside in its attempts at mimetic representation but in its capacity to make ‘possible the imagining of possibilities’.

摘要

本文将通过超现代主义的视角以及“真实”小说的回归，分析阿里·史密斯（Ali Smith）的最新著作中的两本，《Artful（2012）》和《如何成为两者》（2014）。它分析了用于将现实重新引入小说的叙事策略，例如，有目的性和模棱两可的模糊通用界限，以及互文性，内向性和中介性的元现代使用。此外，本文将探讨小说中的“真实”与由万维网构成的“真实”之间的对比。归根结底，本文将声称文学对“真实”的访问不在于其对模仿表示的尝试，而在于其使“可能想象”成为可能。