徘徊在“政治理性”与“艺术直觉”之间——重读《太阳照在桑干河上》

Hovering between the Political Rationality and the Art Intuition——Rereading "The Sun Shines on the Sanggan River"

《太阳照在桑干河上》是一部既具有一定的生活真实性和历史深度,又有着较为明显缺陷与不足的作品。一方面,作家忠实自己在土改实践中真实的艺术直觉,真实地反映了当时农村生活本身的复杂与丰富、农村各阶层人物在历史大变动过程中的思想与心态、宗法制农村社会相互纠葛的复杂人际关系;另一方面,作家在锤炼作品的思想主题和搭建小说的情节框架时,又自觉不自觉地依据主流意识形态的要求对生活加以符合"政治理性"的剪裁和取舍,将原本丰富的历史运动纳入到理论或政策的阐释模式中,使作品本应具有的作家个人对历史的观察思考与洞见有所缺席。

DING Ling, who was hovering between the political reason and the art intuition, has made the novel ＂The Sun Shines on the Sanggan River＂ to be a piece of literature with not only the life authenticity and the depth of history, at the same time obvious drawbacks and deficiencies. On one side, to be faithful to her authentic art intuition from the agrarian reform practice, the writer honestly reflected the complexity and richness of rural life at that time, the thinking and mentality of the rural people in the process of the historical change, and the tangled and complex inter--personal relationships in the patriarchal rural society. On the other side, in framing the theme and structuring the plot, the author, consciously or unconsciously, pruned and selected life material in accordance with political reason basing on the requirements of the mainstream ideology, and incorporated the rich historical movements into the interpretation of theories or policies, resulting in the lack of her personal observations and reflections on the history.