当代知识分子的启蒙话语实践及其尴尬处境——读韦君宜小说《月夜清歌》

The Enlightenment Discourse Practice and Its Predicament of Contemporary Intellectuals——Review of Wei Junyi's Novel Singing in the Moonlit Night

作为十七年时期的小说文本,《月夜清歌》没有塑造工农兵中的英雄人物和先进典型,也没有通过知识分子在和乡村民众的亲密接触中,拷问出了自己灵魂深处的"小",而是通过暧昧含混的叙事,将乡村颂歌变成启蒙阐释。由于时代政治环境的抑制和启蒙话语本身的缺陷,当代知识分子的启蒙话语实践由"五四"式的高尚道德义举变成了一场可爱的玩笑并不可避免地陷入一种尴尬的处境之中。

Unlike other works in Seventeen- year Period( 1949- 1966),the novel Singing in the Moonlit Night doesn't tend to characterize heroes and heroines or other advanced models from the workers,peasants and soldiers,nor does it describe howC hinese intellectuals interrogate their own 'egoism'through the closest contact with rural people. And its ambiguous narration turns out to be enlightenment interpretation instead of a village ode. Due to political inhibition and its own shortcoming the enlightenment discourse practice has been turned from the noble moral achievement of 'May Fourth Movement'into a cute joke. And the intellectuals are inevitably caught in an awkward situation.