英文摘要
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Chen Yu-Hui (1957-) is a contemporary Taiwanese author who has lived in Europe for many years. Her fiction, The Book Enthusiast (2010), features a female protagonist who is not only a voracious reader, but also travels extensively around the world and spends much time surfing on the internet. In the midst of the postmodern world characterized by information explosion and implosion, the protagonist Xing Ruo-Shui has been metaphorized into a butterfly who explores different parts of the world. However, underneath the plotline, one could almost hear the timpani drum humming "Who am I?" During her runaway adventures, meditation has enabled the protagonist to strip away layers of Logos, while questioning the subjectivity of the individual, the most fundamental and authentic of postmodern probe. Along with the de-subjectivation movement in postmodern literature, the theme in The Book Enthusiast focuses on the protagonist's meditation on the postmodern subject. Therefore, this article deploys the later Michel Foucault's postmodern theory to investigate the various "survival techniques" adopted by the protagonist in order to reach the state of a "becoming subject" who enjoys "some degree of freedom and pleasure". Despite the "flattening" phenomenon frequently found in the postmodern critiques, The Book Enthusiast presents a protagonist who is an international journalist, and travels around the world. Additionally, the cultural critiques of the protagonist seemed to be written randomly but offered sharp insight. The Book Enthusiast also showcases a variety of postmodern writing devices-frame story, pastiche, intertexuality, etc.-with which Chen deployed to enrich the storytelling, while offering multiple perspectives and entertainment. Notably, toward the end of the novel, Chen skillfully manipulated the narrative techniques to connect with the protagonist's meditation on subjectivity. On the basis of the present analysis, the author expects this paper to facilitate in-depth discussion on the book's postmodern punctum and its cultural meaning.
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