边缘的人生——论黄碧云《烈佬传》的回忆叙述

Living on the Edge: On the Reminiscent Narrative of Children of Darkness by Wong Bik-wan

香港作家黄碧云花了多年时间搜集数资料,写成了以吸毒者为题材的《烈佬传》。小说处处流露对隐于黑暗的小人物的关爱。本文从用心写作说起,指出作者如何努力尝试走入他们的世界。为了更真实地演绎这些人的故事,让他们可自我发声,她更一改以往暴烈血腥的创作风格特色。第一人称的回忆叙事,平淡的演绎,简浅的句子,广东口语的夹杂等,均可说是为了实践这种创作理念而运用的艺术表达手法。此外,男主角虽处于社会边缘角落,却无碍作者表述其中的人情世界。

Wong Bik-wan, a Hong Kong-based writer, after spending years gathering material, has completed her book, Children of Darkness, a novel about drug-addicts that reveals love of and concern with its characters, hidden in the dark, everywhere. This article, starting with a discussion of how the writing is done with heart, demonstrates how the author endeavours to enter into their world and, in order to tell their stories in a more realistic way and to hear their own voices, how she has changed her erstwhile violent and bloody style by adopting the first-person narrative in a plain manner of story-telling with simple sentences, mixed with the Cantonese dialect that could all be described as her artistic expression used to achieve this creative concept, apart from the fact that the male protagonist, situated on the edge of society and in a corner, can tell of the world of human emotions in an unobtrusive manner.