写“被遗忘了的历史”——读长篇小说《巴水苍茫》

Writing about the Forgotten History ——on reading the novel: Vastness of Ba Rivers

历史创作..是很难的。要凭新的人生发现,新的历史意识,方能写出被人忽略和遗忘的历史。《巴水苍茫》上卷提供的“袍哥世界”,除了联系到历史,还与巴水三峡险恶的自然条件及船民的生存需要联系起来。通过人物创造,表现了不同的巴蜀文化。下卷后50年,是迄今为止历史叙事很难取得突破的领域。在没有(或不可能)形成新的历史视角的情况下,通过把宏大叙事细化,深入历史生活的创作,仍可以有很大的作为。

It is difficult to create historic writing. Only with new life discovery and historical sense can a writer write the forgotten history. The first volume of Vastness of Ba Rivers is about 搕he world of paoge? an old-time underground organization, which is related to history, to the harsh natural condition in the Three Gorges area and the survival need of ship staff there. This volume reflects various cultures of Ba and Shu by character creation. The 2nd volume is about the history of the latter 50 years, which is up to now a hard-to-make-a-break-through area of historical narration. Under the circumstances of no new historical perspective, the creation of detailizing the macro narration and taking root in historical life is still promising.