五四与古典传统叙述资源的隐与显——文革期初版的战争题材长篇小说之叙述资源分析

Narrative Resources of the May Fourth and Traditional Classics——Over and Covert Narrative Strategies in War Novels Published in the Cultural Revolution Period

文革战争题材长篇小说主要采取了中国传统白话小说的叙述资源,而表面上放弃甚至屏蔽了五四以来的现代小说传统,但其叙述者隐身抒情、半开放式大团圆结局等叙述手段又与五四小说家引进的现代小说叙述资源有着深刻的同构关系。这种古典传统与现代性资源的结合,可以说是以科学、解放为主旨的现代性被移植在前现代性的古老传统之上的写照。饱受古典传统浸染的人们以为自己走向了“现代”,其实走向的却是一条“通往奴役之路”。

War novels which were published in the Cultural Revolution mostly adopted the narrative resource of Chinese classical colloquial novel, and abandoned the modem narrative tradition, and strictly closed off the Western narrative resource, in the other hand, between the narrative means such as covert narration in expressing his emotion, the partly opening happy ending, and the modem narrate resource which were introduced into by Wusi novelists had the profound same features. The combination of classical tradition and modem narrative resource was the symbol which was the modernity whose major idea was science and liberation was replanted into the ancient soil symbol before modernism. People found that they made for the road to serfdom when they strode forward with their chin up singing the songs of magnificence narration of modemiss.