扬·马特尔的新作《碧翠丝与维吉尔》通过对作家亨利的生活轨迹的追踪,从动物的独特视角诠释了二战时期纳粹大屠杀对人类的巨大影响。马特尔在该小说中大量运用后现代元小说元素,大大拓展了作品的内涵。本文主要从元小说的框架结构、跨体裁的拼贴模式以及对以往作品的指涉这三个方面来挖掘作品中的元小说特质,揭示其后现代特征。 Jan Martell’s new Beatrice and Virgil traces the huge human impact of the Nazi genocide during the Second World War from the unique perspective of animals through its tracking of the life of writer Henry. Martell makes extensive use of the elements of postmodern meta novels in the novel, greatly expanding the connotation of his works. This paper mainly explores the traits of metafiction from the three aspects of the frame structure of meta novels, the cross-genre collage mode and the reference to the previous works, revealing its postmodern features.