寻找烛照生命与艺术的灯绳——苏童新世纪的小说创作

Seeking for the Life Lit up by Candles and the Lamp Cord of Art——Su Tong’s Novel Creation in the New Century

苏童的新世纪小说创作,试图从外与内、客观与主观、后天与自然等相关联的两个方面来表现人在社会历史中的命运变化以及人性深处的矛盾冲突与症候显现。以一般性题材选择和平常性的人物与事件描写作为小说基本切入口,作者从人性恶转向对人性善的关注,从人性阴暗的冷色调叙述趋向于对人性暖色或者中和色调的描写。以现实主义为基调,拉长时空距离、融合奇异神秘因素和象征手法的运用等,使苏童的小说艺术呈现出既忠于现实又高于现实的“离地三公尺”“飞行”的特点。

Novel creation of Su Tong in the new century aims to manifest the change of people’s destiny in social history and the display of conflict and symptoms in the depth of human nature. With the general selection of subject matter and description of characters and events as the entry point, the author shifts his attention from the evil of human nature to the kindness of human nature, and from the narration of dark human nature with cool tone to the description of human nature with warm or neutral tone.With realism as the keynote, the author employs the devices of lengthening space-time distance, adopting strange and mysterious factors, and applying symbolic techniques, etc., thus allowing Su Tong’s novel art to present the features of "being three meters above the ground" and "flying" which is loyal to the reality and goes above the reality in the meanwhile.