再成长:读《爱,是不能忘记的》及其周边文本

Love is Not to Be Forgotten and Its Other Versions Interpreted

张洁的短篇小说名作《爱,是不能忘记的》曾在上世纪七八十年代之交引起激烈争论。论文将之辨认为一个微型成长小说文本,并重新放入当时的社会语境及相应的文学史序列进行重读,指出这篇小说尽管提及了革命者成长的故事,可是置换了原有成长小说中爱情部分的人物表,从而完成了对革命者爱情生活的追述和补偿,这是引起争论的重要原因。从这篇小说在成长主题、叙事模式、人物关系的处理等方面所表现出来的与“十七年”文学的承续性和差异性,管窥“新时期”与“十七年”之间的断裂与连接的复杂情况。同时,《爱,是不能忘记的》改写了“十七年”文学的成长文本,还为接受了这一成长文本教育的几代人编撰了自己的爱情成长宣言。

Zhang Jie＇s famous short story Love Is Not to Be Forgotten had led to heated debates at the turn from the 1970s to the 1980s. By deeming the short story as a caricature fiction version of growth, this paper aims to reinterpret it in the context of the then society and its corresponding literary history order. It is pointed out that while the growth of revolutionaries is touched upon in the short story, some changes have been made concerning the persons in the love section of the growth story, thereby having completed the account of and compensation for the love of revolutionaries, which accounts for various debates over the short story. By probing into the continuity and dissimilarity between the short story and ＂literature of the 17-year period＂ in terms of the growth motif, mode of narration, the handling of interpersonal relations, etc. , readers can pereeive the complex discontinuity and links between ＂the new period＂ and ＂the 17-year period＂. Meanwhile, Love Is Not to Be Forgotten has rewritten the growth version of ＂literature of the 17 - year period＂ and has advanced the manifesto for love and growth for the several generations who are under the impact of the growth version.