“类史诗”·“类成长”·“类传奇”——中国当代革命历史叙事的三种模式及其叙事美学

"Quasi-epics","Quasi-growth" and "Quasi-tales"——The Three Modes of Historical Narration of Chinese Contemporary Revolution and Its Narrative Aesthetics

中国当代的革命历史叙事,可以分为三种不同又互相联系交叉着的类型。"类史诗叙事"比较靠近主流政治,与西方的史诗写作传统和中国古代的小说诗学之间有多重的内在关系;"类传奇叙事"比较靠近市场和通俗文学,与中国古代小说传统之间关系最近;"类成长叙事"基本来源于西方小说概念,是十七年中知识分子叙事的惟一合法形式。三种叙事类型各自产生了一批在叙事结构与美学方面具有共同或接近特征的作品。

Contemporary revolutionary historical narration can classify into three distinctive but interrelated intersecting types, that is, ＂quasi-epics＂, ＂quasi-growth＂ and ＂quasi-tales Quasi-epic narration＂ was relatively closely associated with mainstream politics, having multiple internal connections with Western tradition of epic writing and Chinese poetics of ancient fiction. ＂Quasi-tale narration＂ was adjacent to market and popular literature, most closely related to Chinese tradition of classical fiction. And ＂qausi-growth narration＂ was largely derived from Western conception of fiction, which was the sole legitimate form of intellectual narration in the 17 years. The three above-mentioned forms of narration contributed respectively a group of literary works of common or similar narrative structure and aesthetic value.