Abstract:This article analyzes Hollis Seamon’s Somebody Up There Hates You in light of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque as it is developed both in Rabelais and His World and in Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. The novel shows the power of carnivalesque episodes and ironic laughter to question both the conventional approach to illness and death, and to illness literature in general. However, it also exposes the limits of parody and laughter in the face of death—no matter how regenerating this carnivalesque novel may prove to be for literature as a whole.

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疾病中的狂欢节：霍利斯·西蒙 (Hollis Seamon) 的某个人讨厌你

摘要：本文根据米哈伊尔·巴赫金在拉伯雷及其世界和陀思妥耶夫斯基诗学问题中发展起来的狂欢节理论，分析霍利斯·西蒙的《有人在那里恨你》。这部小说展示了狂欢节情节和讽刺性笑声的力量，质疑传统的疾病和死亡方法，以及一般的疾病文学。然而，它也暴露了面对死亡时的模仿和笑声的局限性——无论这部狂欢式小说对整个文学来说是多么的重生。