Fictitious Auto-narrator In A Distorting Mirror

Parodic autobiographical novel like Dostoevskij's Notes from the Underground is of a peculiar kind of autobiographical novels. Either in the respect of novels' narrative skills or in the respect of the modeling of self-images, parodic autobiographical novel can easily be distinguished from traditional autobiography and ordinary autobiographical novels. When it comes to novels' narrative skills, parodic autobiographical novel can make full use of the advantages of narrative skills in traditional autobiography, such as by employing narrators' reliability of the first person, the authors of parodic autobiographical novels can control or manipulate their potential readers' visions. In doing so, the authors may lightly found an intimate private relation with their potential readers and overcome the indifferent attitude which may be taken by some unconcerned readers. At the same time, as a kind of autobiographical novels, parodic autobiographical novel can not only unrestrainedly fabricate some stories to mold an odd hero or heroine but also freely work out some purely fictitious psychology to serve their own aims. Besides All the strengths mentioned above, there are still two of the most attractive merits of parodic autobiographical novel that the authors can utilize rhetoric of irony and parody to expose the narrative skills of traditional literary masterpieces such as Rousseau's Confessions and to model a strange type of self-images. As to self-images, narrators of the parodic autobiographical novel overtly allege that they are completely cut off from real and vivid world and their character is divided into several essentially different natures and they are cynical and backward and have no urge to make any progress in such a boring world, but all such self-images may be a deliberate gesture made by authors only to set a trap for their potential readers. Behind their veils what is hidden is their persistent intrinsic self which keeps on combating against nihilism.