虱痒沾身心渐痛 萤灯独照夜更浓——评贾平凹《带灯》

A Novel with Metaphorical Images of Firefly and Lice——A review on Jia Pingwa's A Firefly Shinning in the Darkness

在长篇新作《带灯》中,作家贾平凹一边以萤为喻,成功塑造了一个在黑夜中步履蹒跚却依旧带灯独行的乡镇基层女干部的形象;一边又用虱作比,暗指无法得以彻底解决的基层的矛盾和纠纷。带灯,也就是萤,被贾平凹置于中国社会基层现实的中心地带,其所见、所闻、所思、所感折射出了正在变革中的中国农村所面对的各种问题。对于萤和虱两种小虫的传神刻画使得《带灯》成为贾氏长篇又一厚重之作。

In in using the gered lonely aphoric appl the newly published novel A Firefly Shinning in the Darkness, Jia Pingwa is successful firefly metaphorically to mould a grass rooted working woman, a rural officer who stagin the darkness like a firefly shinning in the darkness with a little lantern, while the met ication of lice implicates unsolvable conflicts and disputes at the bottom of the socie The heroine, called Ying or Daideng （namely a firefly shinning with a little lantern ） is placed by ty. Jia Pingwa at the grass root level of the society in China, whose witness and thinking reflect a variety of issues in the changing course of Chinese countryside. The lifelike description of firefly and louse makes A Firefly Shinning in the Darkness another masterpiece of Jia Pingwa＇ novels.