A.S.Byatt's Retranscription of Henri Matisse's Paintings into"Chinese Lobster"
By taking Henri Matisse's painting of nude female bodies as the base,A.S.Byatt constructs in"Chinese Lobster"a complex,three-dimensional,intermedial intertextual space co-created by readers,characters,Matisse,and the writer herself.The text first presupposes that readers can identify the controversial coexistence of dark and bright colors of life from Matisse's paintings as paratext.And then,by delineating the modes in which the character ap-plies extreme postmodern cultural theories into decoding and encoding Matisse's paintings to carry out her creation and research,Byatt presents how the character puts her life in danger by purely doing things with pictures.In addition,in the gaps between the intellectual debates of two scholars on Matisse's paintings,Byatt conveys her praise for Matisse's artistic display of the significance of seeing living and concrete life.Through the literary retranscription of Ma-tisse's paintings,Byatt demonstrates the backflow illumination from art to life and her reflec-tion and criticism on various Western postmodern cultural discourses that distort and obscure the true meaning of life.
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