黄土高坡与馍、乳房及坟——论《饥饿的山村》的意象和意蕴

Loess Plateau, Steamed Bun, Breasts and Tombs: On the Images and their Implication in A Hungry Village

阅读王智量教授的长篇小说《饥饿的山村》,就像观赏一台大戏,帷幕拉开,看点至少有三:舞美布景,剧情框架,角色演绎。这三点之间有联系,也有区别。小说中至今让人惊悚的若干叙事元素,对小说的整体构成并不具动力性,它们只像若干闪亮的纤维被织入铺垫性的题材背景(宛如布景),而作者真正精心编排的故事则需另一框架,此即由"黄土高坡、馍、乳房与坟"这组意象经纬交错的总体诗学情境及借此所蕴藉的历史沉思。

Reading Prof. Wang Zhiliang’s long novel A Hungry Village is like appreciating a great play. When the stage curtain is open, at least three aspects worthy of attention: the beautiful setting, the framework of the story and the role performance, which are connected to each other on the one hand and different from each other on the other. The narrative factors which are still thrilling up to now are not constructive to the overall structure of the novel. They are only like glistening fibers woven into the bedding (the background of the story).The story is painstakingly arranged in another framework, namely, the overall poetical context crisscrossed with the images of 'loess plateau, steamed bun, breasts and tombs' and the historical deliberation implied in this poetical context.