本文通过对美国小说家蒂姆·奥布赖恩(Tim O’Brien)创作的《追寻卡奇亚托》的研究,发现该作品采用元小说叙事模式,将过去、现在和未来三条时间线索交织,现实与虚构并置或融合,重构小说的新形式。同时,采用悖论、拼贴、开放式结局等后现代主义艺术技巧,揭示战争的荒谬、残暴、复杂多变,引发人们对严肃问题的思考。 Based on the research of “pursuing Cagayanato” by American novelist Tim O’Brien, this article finds that this work uses the metafictional narrative model to interweave the clues of past, present and future three time , The reality and fictional juxtaposition or integration, reconstruction of the novel’s new form. At the same time, using the postmodernist art techniques such as paradox, collage, open ending and so on, we can reveal the absurdity, brutality and complicated changes of the war, triggering people’s thinking on serious issues.