颓靡的天堂 邪媚的地狱——苏童的小说世界

A Discussion on Su Tong's World of Fiction

苏童以他特殊的风格为我们创造了一个精致的小说世界,奇异多姿,引人入胜。其中《1934年的逃亡》、《妻妾成群》、《米》、《蛇为什么会飞》等分别代表了他不同阶段的创作特色,这些作品往往消解理性,淡化伦常,转而关注人性的艺术刻画,具有深刻的心理特质。而其细致柔软的文字则以强烈的艺术表现力为我们构建了一个又一个的日常生活悲剧,好似颓靡的天堂,又如邪媚的地狱,包蕴着人世无限的空间。

With his unique style, Su Tong manages to create for us an exquisite world of fiction which is bizarre, colorful and enchanting, of which novels such as The Exile in 1934, Wives and Concubines in Great Numbers, Rice, Why Can a Snake Fly, etc. have represented respectively his features of literary creation at different stages. With the removal of rationality and less emphasis on the feudal order of importance or seniority in human relationships, these novels center upon the artistic depiction of humanity and are endowed with profound mental quality. With the help of meticulous and supple characters, these novels have, by virtue of their impetuous artistic expression, established for us daily life tragedies one after another, which is like both the dejected paradise and the weird and charming hell embodying boundless space of the human world.