Decomposition And Reconstruction: On Cubism Narrative Of Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner is the great experimentalism novelist in the 20th century. His ninth novel, Absalom, Absalom! , is the summit of his novel creation, which is not only a unique experiment of modern novel, but also the ultimate fundamental pioneering of novel writing method after Joyce. Therefore, research on its narrative art has always been a hot and difficult issue. However, both foreign and Chinese researches on the novel still remain at the interpretative description level, being confined to specific artistic features, hardly covering thecubism narrative art — the deep source and characteristic of the text form experiment.Integrated with the previous researches, the thesis traces the deep origin of its narrative art and form experiment back to the sources of modernism art — the cubism, pointing outthat the novel's most remarkable contribution to art lies in its cubism narrative. Compared to the cubism painting, mainly taken the narrative art of the text into consideration from two angles of decomposition and reconstruction of the cubism art, it penetrates into the cubism, analyzes the typical cubism text strategy and features of the narrative at first, then its poetic value.The preface generally outlines the research situation of the text both at home and abroad, and then puts forward the arguments, the penetration point and the overall train of thoughts.The first chapter totally organizes the aesthetic pursuit and the influence of cubism on modernism literature, generally illuminates the cubism experimental nature of the narrative of the Absa lorn, Absalom! .The second and third chapter, which is the core part, discusses the novel's cubism narrative characteristics of decomposition and reconstruction through multi-perspective narrative, juxtaposition, collage and interlock of time sequence.The fourth chapter more discusses its poetic value of cubism narrative.It finally reaches a conclusion that the novel, with its great artistic creativeness, builds a cubic literature world, practices the aesthetic idea of cubism art in the narrative area, tries a new paradigm for the art of modern novel, meanwhile enriches and develops the art of modern novel, which has deeply influenced the development of the art of novel in the 20th century, therefore, established Faulkner's grand position as the great master of modernism novel.