《笨花》:民间与革命的双重传奇

Benhua: the double legend of folk and revolution

《笨花》是铁凝文学生涯中最重要的也最有分量的一部作品,它试图将民间文化和革命伦理结合起来,把日常生活与宏大叙事统一起来,探寻历史和人性的真相。它一方面表现着"中国凡人"的家国情怀,实现与主流意识形态的合流,另一方面,又揭示出革命伦理的某些暧昧属性,表达了对"革命"诉求的绝对性的怀疑,在一定程度上释放了新的想象空间。

Benhua is the most important and weighty book in Tie Ning’s literary career, which attempts to combine folkculture and revolutionary ethics, to connect everyday life with the grand narrative, and to explore the truth of historyand humanity. On the one hand, it demonstrates the sense of domestic and national identity of “China mortals” andrealizes the convergence with the mainstream ideology. On the other hand, it reveals certain ambiguous property ofrevolutionary ethics, expresses her skepticism on the absoluteness of “revolution” appeal, and to some extent releases anew sphere for imagination.