论《钦文自传》的叙事张力

On Narrative Tension of An Autobiography of Qinwen

"乡土文学"作家许钦文写于1934年的《钦文自传》,其在叙事方式上带有先锋性质的艺术探索,主要表现在:一是采用逆时序回溯的反编年体结构使对象陌生化,冲击传统传记接受的阅读惰性;二是把创造文本间的互文关系当成自我赋形的特殊手法,通过主文本与互文本的相互渗透与相互作用拓展自传的表现空间;三是把重大历史事件作为自传文本的"注脚",通过叙述空白召唤积极接受,实现还原特定历史情景的功能。这些充满叙事张力的传记写作新尝试,在诞生初期的中国现代自传文学格局中有独特的意义。

As a writer of rural literature,Xu Qinwen wrote An Autobiography of Qinwen in 1934.The pioneering artistic exploration in its narration is manifested mainly in three aspects.First,it defamiliarizes the object,impacting on reading inertia of traditional biography by adopting reverse sequence of anti-chronological structure.Second,it regards the creation of intertextual relations between texts as special means of self-modeling,expanding expressional space of autobiography by interpenetration and interaction between the main text and intertext.Third,it considers major historical events as footnotes of autobiography,calling for positive acceptance by blank statement,fulfilling the function of restoring specific historical scenario.These new attempts of applying narrative tension to autobiography writing have a special significance in the early Chinese modern autobiography literature pattern.