传统与后现代的巧妙融合——《达·芬奇密码》的成功解读

美国小说家丹·布朗(Dan Brown)凭着其新文化悬疑小说《达·芬奇密码》《The Da Vinci Code》)一炮而红,成为美国文坛的新宠。着重从传统与后现代小说的特点出发,对《达·芬奇密码》的素材与主旨,叙事框架与手法等方面进行分析,从而解密谊小说的成功之处。小说《达·芬奇密码》糅合了古老神秘的宗教文化与当代先进的高科技,虚幻与真实巧妙结合,知识性与趣味性融合,极大满足了小说读者的阅读期待,取得了巨大的成功,同时为小说的发展指明了新的方向。

A Successful Combination of Tradiation and Post-Modernism:The Success of The Da Vinci Code

The great achievement made by The Da Vinci Code has brought Dan Brown under the spotlight. This essay attempts to analyse the theme and the narrative techniques of this fiction from the angle of tradition and post-modernism. The narrative teniques involved in the fiction, such as dynamic suspense, non-linear structure, well-organized plot and flashback, are well-used, which made the fiction popular with a wide range of readers. The success of The Da Vinci Code has opened a new epoch in the development of American novels.