承载文化和生命的形式——论新时期家族小说的历史观

Conveyance of Culture and Life——On Historic Consciousness of Fictions with Family Themes in the New Period

家族小说在新时期,无论是侧重于展现人的文化存在一路还是着重抒写人的非理性存在状态的另一路,都否弃了代言式抒写姿态和方式,其重心不在于力求真实再现历史生活之真貌,而在于展示特殊历史文化氛围和其中生活的人之生存状态和生命形式。历史成为发挥想象力和虚构才能的载体,不再承担认知和教化功能,从而使小说家获得多元视点和自由的个人叙事立场。

The fictions with family themes in the New Period, whether they tend to expose the cultural existence of human beings or describe irrational existence of human beings, all abandon the approaches of 'speak-for-others' description and styles. The axis does not lie in the actual historic re-presentment, but in the demonstration of the special cultural atmosphere with the living people. Historical background becomes the vehicle of exerting the imagination and forging capacity for the writers. It , as a matter of fact, bears no cognitive and educational functions, and makes possible for the writers to obtain the dimensional vision and the freedom of narration.