“讲故事的人”:莫言与本雅明的巧合

＂Story-teller＂： the Coincidence ofMo Yan and Walter Benjamin

莫言的诺贝尔获奖演说《讲故事的人》与德国文学批评家瓦尔特·本雅明论艺术现代性的名作《讲故事的人——尼古拉·列斯科夫作品随感》不仅题目相同，且所述文学理念也颇为相似。通过细读两个文本，并对照二者的创作实践，笔者得出如下结论：在论述“讲故事的人”这一话题时，莫言深受本雅明相关理论的影响，并对其进行了创造性的借鉴。据此，我们得以用一种跨文化、跨时空的眼光来审视小说家与社会历史的关系，并借以总结中西文学叙事中的共通规律。

The title of Mo Yan＇s speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012 coincidentally is the same as Walter Benjamin＇s essay on artistic modernity ＂Story-teller-thinking on Nicolai Leskov＇s works＂. Besides, their views on literary creation as revealed in the two texts are quite similar. By close-reading the two texts and comparing their creation process, the paper argues that Mo Yah might be deeply influenced by Benjamin in his understanding about ＂story telling＂ and, of course used this concept creatively. By doing this we could have a better understanding of the relationship between fiction writer and social history. What is more, we might be able to reach some common understanding about ＂story-telling＂ in world literature.