莫言与民族主义者的寓言

Mo Yan and Nationalist Allegory

莫言的长篇历史小说以及大多数中篇小说,承载着寻根者迫切的国族困境。《红高粱》中的挫败感,是作者回望故乡的传奇英雄期许中国复兴的心理反应。在《红高粱家族》、《丰乳肥臀》这两部有关中国历史的宏大神话叙事中,莫言利用基督教意象或"基督徒"角色,道出他心目中基督教在中国的处境,指出今天的中国是中国与西方"杂交"所生。在对中国现代性困境的思索中,莫言以西方之"用"来寻找纯正的中国之"体"。

Most of Mo Yah＇ s work can be labeled as historical novel, and involved with dilemmas of the Root-Searchers. In Red Sorghum, Mo Yan wears his ubi sunt discontent with the China of the present on his sleeve and looks back to the mythical heroes of his home county for a promise of Chinese renewal. In the midst of Mo Yan＇s grand mythologizing of Chinese history, he makes use of Christian image and ＂Christian＂ characters respectively to portray the place of Christianity in China. Thus, Mo Yan is still looking for the pure Chinese ti within all the Westernyong of the past century.