An Analysis On The Subversion Of Traditional Narrative Strategy In London Fields

Martin Amis,as a famous British writer,is always bracketed his father together.His father,Kinsley William Amis,is one of the most famous representatives of “Angry Young Man”.However,Martin's writing style is totally different from his father.He has been getting rid of his father's shadow since his first work.Now he is a successful Avant-garde writer,has got a nomination for Booker Prize twice and signed to Creative Writing Center of Manchester University as New Style writing Professor till 2011.In 2008,he was mentioned as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.Money and London Fields is his famous works.London Fields,as Martin Amis' s most famous work,establishes his pioneer status of British modern writers.However,there are few studies of this work and most of them study the work around emotion,sexes,the panic of doomsday and black humor.There are few projects studies the works in terms of narrative techniques and features.However,as a representative of Avant-garde,the unusual features of narrative techniques of London Fields should be noticed.It is its amazing writing techniques and unique writing style that forged its unusual reading experience and the satire of modern society.There are four chapters of this paper.The first chapter introduces Martin Amis,London Fields and structuralism narrative theory of Gérard Genette.Gérard Genette epitomizes the thought of this school.Genette believes that narrative has three categories,narrative,story and narration.At the same time,he absorbs the theory of Russian linguist Todorov and mentions three issues,time,content and voice.Time is to analyze the relationship between narration time and story time.In this issue,Genette puts up three concepts,narrative order,narrative duration and narrative frequency.Narrative context is to analyze the features of narrative,and narrative voice is to analyze the relationship between the story narrators,authors and characters of story.The second chapter mainly discusses the features of narrative time of the novel.The novel is analyzed in terms of narrative order and narrative duration and was compared with traditional novel.Martin Amis is sharp on time arrangement.He cleverly arranges the plots orders and the narrative orders.The zigzagging arrangement of time changes traditional time strategy and gets an amazing end of the story.The third chapter is to analyze narrative context in terms of narrative manner,narrative person and narrative focalization.Martin Amis has his own understanding of narrative person,narrative focalization and narrative manner.What he does is different from traditional European novel.He changes these elements which can affect narrative showings in order to make an uncertain and absurd style.The fourth chapter discusses the narrative voice of the novel in terms of narrative types and narrative level.Narrative types include anterior narration,posterior narration,and simultaneous narration and insert narration.Narrative level includes inside narration level,outside narration level and meta-narration level.Martin Amis totally changes the traditional writing strategy of European novels and uses more than one strategy to construct his work,which makes a simple story complicating,a common end unpredictable.In this work,Martin Amis shows an absurd time,and accomplishes a mockery to novel,to the characters,to the readers and the time chaos.