空镜子的美丽———中国后现代主义作家创作论略

Beauty of the Empty Mirror——Brief Discussion on the Creative Theory of the Postmodernist Writer

20世纪八十年代中后期,中国的后现代主义作家创作了一大批先锋小说。他们颠覆性的文体实验一度抵达人们艺术感觉和想象力的边缘,制造出短暂的繁荣图景。他们的极端性试验,一方面促成了当代小说写作模式难以逆转的转型,同时也因此设置了解读障碍而招致了读者的无情抛弃,最终使先锋小说创作只能成为昙花一现的后现代文学景致和注定衰落的文学运动。

In the mid-or late-1980s, some youth writers created a large number of pioneer (or post-trendy) novels, which illuminated the slightly gloomy and quiet literal sky of that time. They were bent on the experiment in technique operation of the text, using form constructive theory to displace ontology of literary content, thus subverting the norm of traditional novels, thereby showing their understanding of the world and expression way. Though later on they ceased the experiment on form and returned to history, tradition and meaning for they were tired of the endlessness of 'revolt' and disheartened by the reader's merciless abandonment. Finally, it let the pioneer novel become a transient postmodernism literature and the movement of the decline literature.