莫言的小说笔法——《丰乳肥臀》人物叙事论

The Technique of Novel Writting of Mo Yan——The Narration Theory on the Characters of “Big Breasts and Wide Hips”

莫言在《丰乳肥臀》中塑造的上官金童这个人物曾经引发了当代文学史上的一起公案,也影响到对该作品的价值认定。如果从小说叙事的角度来看,作家实际上是选择了金童这个奇特的人物作为整部作品的意识支点,间接地表现二十世纪乡土中国怎样被现代化的历程。不同寻常的眼光可以洞穿理性化思维的盲区,使人们得以对现代性进行深度反思。钱钟书先生对史书中小说笔法的评讲打通了现代小说叙事学的核心问题,为厘清小说人物与叙事的关系提供了思路。

As a key character created by Mo Yan in ＂Big Breasts and Wide Hips＂, Shangguan Jintong had ever initiated one famous dispute in the contemporary literature history, and influenced the value evaluation on the novel. Reading from the perspective of narratology, Jintong is just selected as a special conscious subject to perceive indirectly how China was modernized in 20 th century. The defamiliarized sight could puncture the blind side of rationalized idea, making people to reflect on the modernity.Qian Zhongshu＇s thought on the narratology in Chinese history works touches with the core issue of modern narratology, supplied ways to understand the relationship of character and narrative.