巴人承传天地知——写在长篇小说《巴水苍茫》出版之后

The Heritance of Ba People——Thoughts after the publishing of the novel Vastness of Ba Rivers

雄险秀丽的长江三峡和不舍昼夜的滔滔巴水,是成就小说的富金矿。在这里,人的生存环境、生活方式与巴文化和巴人品性水乳交融、密不可分。刚刚过去的一百年,是峡江以前上千年的变化所不能比拟的。回顾对长篇小说《巴水苍茫》的酝酿、准备,小说的谋篇构局和最后成书,以及首都评论家对该书的肯定。对有关中国近当代百年史长篇小说结构所做的探索,期待引起评论界更广泛的关注。

The golde mine for the novel Vastness of Ba Rivers is the majestic and magnficent Three Gorges along the Yangtze River and the surging water of Ba rivers, where mans living environment and life style are in harmony with the Ba culture and the personality of Ba people. And they can not separated. The changes which took place during the past one thousand years are no equal to the changes which took place during the past one hundrend years. This article traces back to the preparation of the novel, the novel抯 plot and structure, its publishing, its positive evaluation by critics in Beijing, and the probe into the novel抯 structure about the 100 year history of modern China so as to arouse wide attention from critics.