【摘要】 作为关心并积极讨论科技发展的当代作家之一，大卫·福斯特·华莱士在《无尽玩笑》《苍白之王》《遗忘》等多部作品中表达了他对科技社会中人类生活的关切。本文试图总览华莱士若干代表作中描述科技与人类互相影响的叙事片段，集中关注华莱士作品中的人物塑造手法和叙事文体创新，从他独特的叙事手法中解读华氏对科技社会的反思和预期。一方面，华氏擅长在故事情节中具体呈现人物与科技的紧张关系，表现科技对人物的伤害或人物对科技的本能抗拒，来影射科技在社会生活中对人类本性的影响；另一方面，他把“超文本”“数据库”等现代科技带来的信息传递方式化为叙事文体，改变读者的阅读体验，来体现科技通过影响人类认知方式而造成的对小说艺术的冲击。华莱士的“科技形态化”叙事既响应了后人文主义对科技的关注，又不失对人类内心世界的洞察与人文关怀，客观地揭示了科技发展中出现的社会问题。更多还原

【Abstract】 The connections between technology and David Foster Wallace’s works, such as Infinite Jest, The Pale King, and “Oblivion”, are so many and palpable that no reader can deny his deep concern about technological social life. This article investigates narrative cases about human’s interactions with technology from Wallace’s novels and novellas and carries out a narratological analysis of Wallace’s characterization and narrative style to reveal his reflections on technological society. It argues that Wallace not only sets characters in tension with technology, which appears to be technology doing harm to human or human’s instinctive resistance to technology, but also borrows such forms from cutting-edge information technology as “hypertext” or “database” to establish new narrative styles, which creates unprecedented reading experience in readers and manifests modern technology’s impact on the novel as art form. The Wallacian “technomorphic” narrative, on the one hand, echoes with the posthumanist concerns with technology, and on the other hand, retains the humanist cares about human feelings and emotions. From such a perspective containing both humanism and posthumanism, Wallace objectively examines the social conundrums in the development of technology.更多还原