精神还乡与宏大梦魇——评阿来《空山》

Comments on Ah Lai's The Empty Mountain

论文认为阿来的《空山》,是作者的精神乌托邦建构,在这个意义上,《空山》的写作是一次精神还乡。这种封闭式美学和挽歌式写作,在美化过往的同时,不可避免地"劫持"了西藏;西藏成为作者的创造物。作者用"六个花瓣"来结构自己的长篇巨制,显示了作者建构宏大历史的愿望,但是由于作者固型化的思维,历史被极其简单化处理,小说在历史书写方面没有突破。

It is opined that Ah Lai＇s new novel The Empty Mountain is modeled on his Utopian ideology, which well signifies that the creation of the novel is an ideological return to the native land. Despite its embellishment of the past, this closed aesthetic and elegiac writing has inexorably ＂constrained＂ Tibet, thus converting Tibet into the pro.duct of the writer. The novel, though built on ＂six petals＂ and indicative of the writer＇s desire for constructing the grand history, has not made any breakthrough in history writing due to his stereotyped thinking and his simplified manipulation of history.