一个反向文明的寓言——论《额尔古纳河右岸》的死亡与救赎

An Allegory of Reverse Civilization:On Death and Redemption in On the Right Bank of the Ergun River(also known as The Last Quarter of the Moon)

《额尔古纳河右岸》从死亡与救赎的终极视角见证了二十世纪鄂温克文明的兴衰。作品有别于中国二十世纪九十年代以来的长篇历史重写潮流,而转向自然与原始文明的重建。其中,死亡的超验叙述、母爱的极致书写,以及对于神性的热盼与节制,从不同侧面暗示了现代人在追逐现代性的过程中,对自然、爱与善的信仰阙如。在这个意义上,《额尔古纳河右岸》看似抽离历史与现实的同时,却投射着对当下文明反向性、建构式的批判。

The Last Quarter of the Moon is the story chronicling the vicissitude of Ewenki civilization in the 20th century in the perspective of death and redemption. The work to a certain degree is the literary reconstruction of nature and primi- tivelife, which manifests itself differently from those Chinese novels in the trend of rewriting history since 1990s. In terms of, for example, the transcendentalnarration of death and maternal love, as well as the paradoxical attitude, being complimentary and meanwhile suppressive, to divinity, the work implies the estimable value of embracing nature, love and goodness which, however, has been neglectedby modern civilized people in the historical process of being modernity. The Last Quarter of the Moon in this sense though dissociates itself from history and reality actually criticizes the weakness of moderncivilization in a way of constructing the Ewenki＂anti-civilization＂.