The Narrative Labyrinths in the Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag is an American writer and critic who grew up after the World War II.She is a "thinker" as well as a "fighter", and "one of the most outstanding writers of our time".Throughout her career, Sontag wrote seven anthologies.This paper takes the short story collection Debriefing as the research object, and analyzes the narrative labyrinths in the short story collection from the aspects of time labyrinths, space labyrinths and characters labyrinths.This paper also points out the strategic significance under the narrative labyrinths skills-using the narrative labyrinths to imply the world is a big labyrinth, in which people live extremely absurd lives.Although people living in this absurd world can never escape from the labyrinths, they never give up struggle.Thus, we can find that there is hidden concern for reality and human nature with a strong humanistic care beneath the surface of the writer's pioneering experiments.We can not only dig out the distinctive and profound significance of the times in her works, but also explore some spiritual connotation beyond the times and race.