荒诞与严肃——浅析《我不是潘金莲》的艺术特征

Absurdity and Seriousness:A Study of the Artistic Feature of I'm not Pan Jinlian

刘震云新作《我不是潘金莲》因被称为《一句顶一万句》的姊妹篇而备受关注,同时这也是他第一部关注女性主体的小说。小说通过描写女主人公李雪莲为了证明假离婚及一句"我不是潘金莲"而为此上诉上访长达二十年的故事。在这篇小说中,作者在叙述结构、情节设置及叙事风格等方面都做了独具匠心的安排,用荒诞的故事告诉我们严肃的生活道理。

I＇m not Pan Jinlian, the new book of Liu Zhenyun, has aroused much concern because it is regarded as the companion work of A Sentence for Ten Thousand Ones. Meanwhile it is the first novel in which he shows his great concern for females. The novel describes the story that the heroine Li Xuelian appealed for help for twenty years in order to prove a fake divorce and ＂I＇m not Pan Jinlian＂. In this novel, the author makes original arrangements in the narrative structure, plot settings, narrative style and other aspects, telling us the serious truth of life with absurd story.