华文微型小说的叙事自觉与阅读期待

Self-Consciousness of Narrative and Reading Expectation: An Analysis of Chinese MiniStories

微型小说因其制小篇微的体式 ,易于诱使写作者趋向“滥作” ,尽管它在本质上更要求写作者的“精耕细作”。华文微型小说通过它得天独厚的现代生存条件 ,摆脱此种“先天”不足带给它艺术地位的弱化 ,而发挥出文学独特的精神功用。因而它必须具备叙事自觉 :既要满足读者的阅读期待 ,又要提升这种阅读期待。从整体上考察华文微型小说写作的叙事自觉与作品中叙事艺术的缺失部分的关系 ,可为它所应具有的诗学品质 ,提供一份有益的思考与经验。

Mini stories in modern Chinese communities have the best living condit ions, in which the artistic weakness due to congenital deficiency can be effecti vely overcome. The micro-format of mini stories requires the writers to pay more attention to the technique and thus to be more self conscious of the narrative. They must try to satisfy and heighten the readers' reading expectation. Therefo re, to examine the relationship between the writers' self-consciousness of narra tive and the narrative art in the mini stories will provide us a deep insight of this unique literary genre.