“异数”《多湾》

"Uncommonness" Book Review on Gone with the River

长篇小说《多湾》是一部具有"异数"气质的作品,它重新继续了现实主义写作传统,宏大的历史线索伴随着一份日常而持久的生活。历史中的日常也是历史,日常中的历史也是日常。小说不再对"政治"和"革命"本身兴致勃勃,而注重考察在"政治"和"革命"中的人。它写人的持续性和日常性,人是主题,重大事件是生活客观进程的背景,这是对重大叙事的一种颠覆。《多湾》写家族史,并不设定家族文化的整体性,而是观察现实变迁中的生命个体的文化演变,用这些个体集合成整体,这也是对前辈作家写家族文化善于预设概念的一种打破。

The novel,entitled Gone with the River,is totally different from other novels in that it keeps the realistic writing tradition with an ordinary and permanent life,accompanied by a grand historical line.Everyday life in the past became history,history in everyday life became a daily routine.Instead of focusing on politics and revolution,this novel focuses on the people in the political and revolutionary movements.In the continuous and daily life,people are the theme,the major event serves as the background of the objective life process,which is a great subversion on narration.This novel is a record of a family history,yet not with a fixed integrity of family culture,also an expression of individuals＇ cultural changes in real life,with these individuals combined together into an entirety,which is also thought to be a breakup of the fact that the previous writers would like to write about the family culture with the preconceived notions.