对完整式小说的艺术挑战——论刁斗《我哥刁北年表》

An Art Challenge to the Integrated Novel——On Chronicle of My Brother Diao Bei's Life by Diao Dou

小说家刁斗在其长篇小说《我哥刁北年表》中通过对一个处在社会边缘的小人物刁北的50年人生轨迹的展示,侧面揭示了当代中国社会半个世纪以来的历史变迁。小说进而由此对人和体制之间千丝万缕的联系进行了较有意义的彰显和挖掘,揭秘了严肃表象下面的荒诞和滑稽,最终拷问的是整个人类生活和人类社会。小说的形式也富有意味,以"碎片"式的呈现和拼贴的方式在挑战了既有的完整式小说的同时,也刷新和校正了人们对小说观念、功能和使命的认识,充分展现了刁斗小说的先锋性。刁斗对人、人性、世界的洞察力要远比余华更为深邃、透彻和先锋。这是一部作者自己与自己进行精神对话、展开思想交锋的作品,在这里,作者对沧桑世事的纷繁思绪、对真实人性的敏锐洞察,借由不同人的口中道出,不同的腔调、复杂的声音相互交织碰撞,带给我们新异的感受。

The novel Chronicle of My Brother Diao Bei＇s Life written by Diao Dou shows us the fifty years of life of Diao Bei,a nobody in the edge of society,which not only describes the historical change of contemporary Chinese society indirectly,but also inspires more thinking over the internal connection of humanity and society system.Further more,the novel reveals the absurdity of serious appearance and puts human nature and human society to torture.The novel form is full of meaning,as the artistic innovation of the usage of ＂fragments＂ instead of integrated narrative style makes us refresh the understanding of novel＇s idea and function and witnesses the avant-garde nature of Diao Dou＇s novels.Diao Dou＇s insights into people,humanity and the world are far deeper,more profound and avant-garde than Yuhua＇s.In this work the author dialogues with himself spiritually and struggles with his own ideas.Here the author＇s complicated thoughts of vississitudes and keen insights to true humnity are told by different people and tones,and complicated voices interweave and clash,which bring us a novel feeling.