徒劳美学与受困的心——张悦然访谈录

Aesthetics of Vanity and a Trapped Heart--The Interview Zhang Yueran

张悦然是21世纪初登场的“80后”作家的标志性人物。当年那场由图书市场与媒体共同制造的青春文学热潮早已褪去,作为继续留在写作阵营中的一员,张悦然走过了向严肃文学试验、探索与转型的长路。在持久的自我更新中,张悦然的写作风格和问题目光渐趋复杂与开阔。在访谈中,张悦然分享了对故乡济南、求学地新加坡的空间情感,并从1980年代生人的身份出发,谈到了由她担任主编的《鲤》以及同代人的友情,谈到了年轻一代写作者面对历史,记忆与遗忘之间的复杂理解。最后,张悦然也谈到了近年来的创作对“受困的心灵”的挣扎与自救的关注,在此基础之上,她也逐渐形成了以“徒劳”为悲剧底色的个人美学取向。

Zhang Yueran is an icon of the“post-80s”writers at the beginning of the new century.The wave of youth literature created by the book market and the media has faded away.Still staying in the writing group,Zhang has gone through a long road to professional literature experiment,exploration and transformation.In the process of constant self-renewal,Zhang's writing style and problematic thoughts have become more profound.In this interview,Zhang shared her feelings for Ji’nan,her hometown,and Singapore,where she perused her college degree.From the perspective of a person born in 1980s,Zhang talked about the literary magazine Li she edited as the chief editor,and the friendship of her contemporaries.She also referred to the complex understanding of the younger generation of writers in the face of history,memory and forgetting.In the end,Zhang mentioned her focus on the struggle and self-help of the“trapped heart”in her recent works.On this basis,she has gradually formed her“aesthetics of vanity”with the undertone of tragedy.