《佩德罗·巴拉莫》视野下的《第七天》批评

A Criticism on The Seventh Day from Pedro Páramo's Horizon of Expectation

与墨西哥作家胡安·鲁尔福的《佩德罗·巴拉莫》相比,余华最新的长篇小说《第七天》所写的亡灵世界同样是现实世界的隐喻和象征,但它对社会现实既批判又寄寓理想和希望,既揭露了现实中的冷酷与暴力,又展示了现实人性温情脉脉的一面。相比《佩德罗·巴拉莫》在小说叙事方式上的探索性、先锋性,《第七天》强烈的故事性虽有值得肯定的地方,但也易让人产生艺术平庸之感;其反映社会问题的尖锐性对人物形象饱满性的损害,也是它艺术上欠缺的地方。

Compared with the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo＇s novel Pedro Paramo, the dead world in novel The Seventh Day by Yu Hua is also a symbol of the real world, but it is the reality of society both criticism and ideal, which reveals the cruelty and violence of reality, and display a realistic human nature full of tender feelings. Compared with the pioneer of narrative way in Pedro Paramo, the strong story in The Seventh Day easily let readers produce a banal sense; the reflection on the sharp social problems in novel is also damage the depiction of characters.