A New Palace Of Literature With A Mess Of Broken Walls

Suspicion and subversion are the most distinctive spirits of deconstruction. Featuring deconstructive skills such as indeterminacy, fragmentation and decanonisation, Donald Barthelme's fiction, a well-recognized representative of postmodernist writing, reflects the special aesthetic cognition of this special epoch by subverting traditional narrative modes and innovating language use. However, these writing techniques not only bring something new and fresh, but also reveal problems and limitations worth of our attention: the overabundant use of indeterminacy is vulgarized, taunting people's inherent desire to make sense; the trend of textualization caused by fragmentation has made fiction a hodgepodge of all sorts of artistic genres and an outcast of its traditional territory; while seeking decanonisation, postmodernist writing batters stereotypes, and ironically falls into a set pattern of "ironic farce"; selflessness and depthlessness have forced postmodernist writing to dissolve itself with strikingly-fast literary metabolism, failing to leave behind so many masterpieces as realism and modernism do; unpresentableness directly leads to the devaluation of language and the rupture between the reader and the writer.