瑞典当代作家谢尔·埃斯普马克的《失忆的年代》是后现代小说的一部力作,这部小说是由七个人物的七篇独白组成,有着类似《人间喜剧》的故事结构。七篇独白展示后现代小说的独特的意识流写作,其中的修辞学实现与现代意识流小说《追忆似水年华》同样的思想批判,推动读者反思当今世界的“失忆”问题,反思人类面临的推却自我的道德责任的历史困境。《失忆的年代》的后现代修辞学及其喻示的寓言空间可以作为中国当代文学的借鉴之玉,反思中国当代文学的可能存在的瓶颈问题,比如先锋派文学在二十世纪九十年代的变异问题,藉此拓展当代文学的人类学视野。 The “Amnesia of the Times”, a contemporary Swedish writer, is a masterpiece of a postmodern novel composed of seven monographs of seven characters and a story structure similar to that of “human comedy.” Seven monologues show the unique stream of consciousness writing in the postmodern novel, in which the rhetoric realizes the same ideological criticism as the “stream of memories” in the modern stream of consciousness novels, and pushes the reader to reflect on the “amnesia” problem in today’s world and reflect on the human Faced with the historical predicament of pushing moral responsibility of self. The postmodern rhetoric of “Amnesia” and its metaphorical allegorical space can serve as a reference for Chinese contemporary literature and reflect on the possible bottlenecks of contemporary Chinese literature, such as the avant-garde literature in the 1990s Mutation, to broaden the anthropological perspective of contemporary literature.