Amy Tan’s Saving Fish from Drowning is featured with the absurdity. In this novel,Amy Tan adopts broader and newer narrative methods by giving up her proficient autobiographical narrative about Chinese Americans. Tan annotates the social reality solemnly and arouses readers to retrospect it more deeply by portraying a group of absurd people. The absurd and incredible events commonly seen in the story show heavy sarcasm to the distorting society reverse the contingency and the inevitability and express the Amy’s regret and pity toward the ab⁃surdity in the factual society. The ghost narration and the prophetic narration create a sense of strangeness and mys⁃tery in readers who are shocked at the artistic effect of Amy’s writing and inspired to discover the philosophical ab⁃surdity in the story.%谭恩美的《沉没之鱼》是一部充满荒诞色彩的作品。小说借助于幽灵叙事和预示性叙事,创造出熟悉的陌生感和神秘感,带给读者震撼人心的艺术效果和极富启示意义的哲学思考,大大强化了作品的荒诞色彩。随处可见的荒诞情节辛辣地讽刺着扭曲的社会,颠倒了偶然与必然的关系,反映了作者对荒诞现实社会的无奈与遗憾。
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