评严歌苓新作《陆犯焉识》

Comment on Yan Geling's new novel Lu Yanshi

《陆犯焉识》是严歌苓在2011年10月推出的又一触摸历史的长篇力作。作品一改以往以女性为主人公的性别写作立场,将男性知识分子陆焉识作为作品的主人公,实现了严歌苓对自身写作传统的突破,也体现了其创作的转型。《陆犯焉识》巧妙运用多种叙事技巧,在叙事视角转换、暗示性喻指等方面皆有出色之处,表现了史与情的交织与分裂,有力揭示了人与政治、人与人的冲突,体现了行者有涯,问道无疆的理念。

Lu Yanshi written by Yan Geling in 2011, is another long novel touching history. The novel changed the previous attitude of writing novels with women as heroines and put the male intellectual Lu Yanshi as the hero, realizing his breakthrough of writing tradition and the transformation of writing. Lu Yanshi skillfully uses many narrative skills and metaphors and expresses interweaving and split of history and love, revealing the conflict between man and politics, man and man as well as the concept of limited life and unlimited pursuit.