A Study Of Reality And Fictionality In David Lodge's Author,Author

David Lodge(1935-)is a famous contemporary British scholar with great international influence,and also a famous novelist and literary critic.He was once elected chairman of the jury for the Booker Prize for Literature and also a member of the Royal Society of Literature.Lodge has profound achievements in novel creation and literary criticism theory.Lodge is famous for his innovation and experiment in the creation of traditional novel forms.He carries out experiments on the basis of traditional biographies,developing it into a biographical fiction,breaking through the boundary between traditional biography and fiction,reality and fictionality,and also break the conventional form of biography.Particularly,his novel Author,Author is exactly an experiment of Lodge's innovation and reform in biography.The novel explores the characteristics of biographical fiction from the perspective of reality and fictionality,revealing Lodge's innovative practice in this experimental literary form and his special construction of character's creation.Lodge's work Author,Author published in 2004 is based on the life experience of a famous novelist,Henry James.The biographical elements in the novel combine the fictional parts of the author to realize the innovative form of biographical fiction.Lodge's innovation of biographical form is that biographical fictions are composed of two parts: reality and fictionality,which interacts with each other to produce three different relationships between them.And the novel Author,Author is created on the basis of these relationships.It mainly describes the life of the hero Henry James in his last 30 years.Lodge plays the writer's privilege in writing this novel,relying on the novel writing skills and the author's own imagination to reproduce some details about events and characters that have been neglected by history,making it different from the traditional biography form.The introduction introduces presents a literature review on Lodge's Author,Author,Lodge's achievements in the experiment and innovation of novel literary forms are highlighted among them.Lodge reforms the traditional biography,thus he successfully creates his first biographical fiction Author,Author.In the introduction part,it illustrates the analysis on Lodge's Author,Author by scholars at home and abroad,and presents its state of the art.Scholars at home and abroad have concentrated on some certain research angle to analyze Author,Author.There is noarticle found analyzing the text from the perspective of the relationships between reality and fictionality,indicating that this thesis can provide a new research angle of the relationships between reality and fictionality to analyze the novel,and clarify the basic framework of this thesis.The thesis is mainly divided into three parts.The first chapter expounds Lodge's need to restore real historical figures and events in his biography.This part of the content provides Lodge with the basic characters and plots of biography writing,and provides Lodge with models of characters in the novel and the basis for the presentationof reality.On the basis of real historical materials,Lodge believes that traditional biography is difficult to fully show historical figures and their psychological features and activities.Therefore,the second chapter tells Lodge takes use of the fictionality of novels to innovate biographical forms and develops them into biographical fiction.As biographical fiction still belongs to the category of novel and has the fictional characteristics of novel.The innovation of Lodge's biographical form can further enrich the characters and images in the novels and complete the writing of biographical novels.In the creation of Lodge's biographical fiction,there is a subtle relationship between reality and fictionality.On the one hand,the creation of biographical fiction requires the mixture and interaction of the two.On the other hand,it is difficult to realize the complete combination of them,which partly promotes the dissociation of the relationship between them.Tension is a kind of relationship to realize the balanced state between fictionality and reality.The exploration of this relationship can enable Lodge to find a writing balance between fiction and biography and realize the writing of biographical fiction.The first chapter mainly expounds the reproduction of the objective world that is reality in the creation of biographical fictions.It is emphasized that the form innovation of Lodge's biographical novels is based on real events,so it is very necessary to expound the real background,characters and events existing in James' time.It mainly presents the real facts,including the background of James lives,the real writers and characters in James' time,and James' personal real life experience,which can completely and objectively present James' life and writing experience,approaching James and understanding James' s dilemma in writing and life at that time.At the same time,readers can clearly distinguish James' s real experience from Lodge's fictional part in the later text analysis,and better understand the basic role and significance of reality in the creation of biographical fictions.The second chapter mainly expounds the recreation of the objective world that is the fictional part of Lodge's biographical fictions.This part emphasizes that the creation and innovation of Lodge's biographical fictions need to exert the novelist's subjective imagination to complete the innovation and breakthrough in the form of biographical fictions,it is mainly elaborated from three aspects: dialogue theory,gameplay theory and binary opposition.Lodge use these three techniques in his novel creation,through these three writing techniques,we can more clearly construct vivid characters and events,break the limitation of time and space in biographical fictions,and make up the vacancy in the creation of conventional biography of the characters' psychological activities and the connection between the characters.Lodge combines his own personal experience,with the help of these three writing skills,he shows the characters in the biographical fiction in a more dimensional way and further promotes the innovation and experiment of the biographical novel.The third chapter mainly expounds that fictional creation has to deal with the relationship between reality and fictionality,this relathioship is exposed as the following: the mixture between reality and fictionality,the dissociation between reality and fictionality and the tension between reality and fictionality.The three different relationships are exactly the products of Lodge's innovation and experiment in biographical fictions,which break the boundary between fictions and traditional biographical forms,and aims to explore more effective and comprehensive novel writing forms that show the real world and writing.By analyzing the diverse relationships between reality and fictionality,Lodge constructs a fictional world based on the reality of life,constructing the fictional world in the novel from many aspects.The relationship between James and the objective world of his time reflects the relationship between the author Lodge's subjective experience and the objective world,so as to make readers better understand the purpose of Lodge's form innovation of biographical fictions,which aims to reproduce his own writing experience,truthfully reflect the real world and Lodge's concern about writing circle.In the novel Author,Author,Lodge carries out the innovation and experimental reform of biographical fictions,realizing the innovation of novel artistic forms,breaking the traditional biographical form,which becomes the particular writing feature of characters' building in Lodge's novel creation.Lodge's innovation of biographical fiction will have certain value and significance for further exploringLodge's writing techniques of reality and fictionality and their relationships in his other works,and help to better understand and study Lodge's cognition and reflection on the real world.