《活着之上》的超越与限度

Transcendence and limitation of Beyond Living

因阎真的现实主义写作和充满道德诗意的超越性写作与路遥的写作在文学精神上的同构性,《活着之上》获首届路遥文学奖。《活着之上》又一次聚焦于社会转型期和消费语境下当代知识分子的生存形态和精神裂变,同时也让我们看到了知识分子精神坚守的可能与可贵。《活着之上》打破了同时期知识分子书写的种种弊病,显示了其共时意义的超越性,但在《沧浪之水》的映照下,也显现出了其存在的限度,以及阎真自我超越的难度。

Yanzhen won the first Luyao literary prize for hisBeyond Livingbecause his writing is realistic yet at the same time full of moral and poetic transcendence, which bears certain isomorphism with Luyao’s writing in literary spirit. Once again,Beyond Living focuses on the living state and spiritual split of contemporary intellectuals in the context of social transition and consumption, making readers know the possibility and the praiseworthy of their spiritual persistence.The novel breaks through the drawbacks of the intellectual writing of the same period and discloses the transcendence of synchronic sense. But a comparative study withCang Lang Zhi Shui shows thatBeyond Living also expresses its limitation and the difficulty for Yanzhen to transcend himself.