作为美国当代最优秀的小说家,约翰·巴斯的短篇小说《生命—故事》给我们很好地展现了后现代语境下文学的一个重要转变:读者的诞生应以作者的死亡为代价来换取。面对自己创作出来的作品,作者对其不再有最终阐释权,作品的最终阐释权掌握在读者的手中。只有依靠读者,作家的作品才有未来。 As the best novelist in the United States, John Barth’s short story “Life-Story” gives us an excellent illustration of the important change in literature in the postmodern context: the birth of a reader should come at the cost of the author’s death exchange. In the face of the works that they created, the author no longer has the final right of interpretation, and the final interpretation power of the works lies in the hands of the readers. Only by relying on readers, writers have a future work.