新闻事件与小说文本的意义——以余华的《第七天》为例

News Events and Meaning of Novel Text——A case study of Yu Hua's " The Seventh Day"

余华的新作《第七天》,是一部可以被当作新闻阅读的小说文本。新闻事件经想象与虚构在小说文本中的运用既能体现出其现实价值,也反映出余华创作观念与方法上的一些变化。《第七天》里新闻事件与小说文本分别采用的官方报道与民间叙事立场的不同与对比,则是余华审视现实社会的一种独特探索方式。不过小说的艺术世界与现实世界的失衡也折射出余华在直面现实时的精神焦灼以及艺术处理的不妥之处。

The Seventh Day, a new book by Yu Hua, is a novel text which can be regarded as a kind of news read- ing. News events, through the application of imagination and fiction in the novel text, can reflect both their real value and some changes of Yu Hua＇s creative ideas and methods in his writing. The difference and comparison of the official reports and the folk narration standpoint respectively adopted in news events and the novel text of The Seventh Day is Yu Hua＇s u- nique exploring way of surveying the realistic society. But the unbalance between art world and real world also reflects Yu Hua＇s mental anxiety when he faces the real world and the inappropriateness in his dealing with art.