《金瓯缺》综论——茅盾文学奖获奖作品丛论之一

The Review of “Jin Ou Que”——One of the Winners of Maodun Literature Award

徐兴业的《金瓯缺》通过对马扩、刘锜、童贯等一系列人物的塑造,再现了12世纪初、中叶,宋、辽、金三个王朝之间的矛盾斗争和宋、辽各自内部的矛盾斗争以及汉、辽、女真、羌等各族政权统治下的社会生活等,揭露了宋、辽统治集团的昏庸、奢靡、腐败和官场的黑暗、腐朽,揭示了人民在戎马纷争之中所受的深重灾难,鞭挞了腐朽、反动的统治集团,歌颂了中华民族的民族主义精神和爱国主义精神;小说语言"文白杂糅",在叙述、描写中穿插着大量抒情、议论,且不乏精到之处,多方面地刻画人物,主线清晰,重点突出,结构严密紧凑,追求历史真实而又不拘泥于历史真实,结尾深沉、意味深长;小说也存在着叙事呆板、"硬伤"等缺憾。

Xu Xingye in his writing ＂Jin Ou Que＂ recreated the conflicts and struggles between 3 kingdoms of Song, Liao and Jin, reproduced the internal contradictions inside Song and Jin, depicted the social life of various ethnic groups including Han, Liao, Nuzhen and Qiang under each regime and portrayed a series of characters such as Ma Kuo, Liu Qi and Tong Guan during the early and middle 12th century. This book exposed the fatuity, extravagancy and corruption inside each ruling groups, showed the darkness and decay of bureaucracy, revealed the severe suffering of the people in the war-torn regions, castigated the decadent, reactionary ruling clique, and spoke highly of the nationalism and patriotism of the Chinese nation. The language in this novel is a kind of literal hybridity, when dedicate lyrics and argumentation were combined with narration and depiction with Mul-tidimensional characterization, clear main thread, outstanding focus, highly-compact structure, historical truth-based writing style, and meaningful ending. However, defects such as dull narrative style and some mistakes in common knowledge also existed in this novel.