虚幻时空的奇异世界——论玄幻小说的叙事特质

A Bizarre World In the IIlusory Space- time——On the Narrative Characteristics of Fantasy Novels

玄幻小说近年炙手可热,是十分值得关注的文学现象,但学界对其褒贬不一,有人认为其文学性太弱、有些浮躁和喧嚣,会是昙花一现,但事实证明,玄幻小说却以持续的发展引起读者的兴趣。玄幻小说创作的质量的确良莠不齐,但解读其比较优秀的作品,其在想象的天空下所叙的奇异时空、青春、浪漫、人性本真等,使叙事充满张力、充满神奇的魅力,克服了当下市场化小说琐碎的日常叙事的不足,尤其丰富和拓展了小说的想象叙事,其独特的叙事特质,开拓了网络小说的审美范式。

In recent years,fantasy novel has become a hot and controversial literary phenomenon. There is a theory that fantasy novels would just be a flash in the pan,because of their poor literariness,some fickleness and noisy. However,facts prove that fantasy novels attract our attention continually. Although the creation quality of fantasy novels is uneven,those more excellent works always deserve to be appreciated. In those works,bizarre space- time,youth,romance,humanity,etc,are narrated under imaginary sky,which makes the novels overflow with tension and charm,also overcomes the market- oriented novels＇ shortcoming——trivial daily narration,especially enriches and expands novels＇ imaginary narrative.Excellent fantasy novels have unique narrative characteristics that would break through the aesthetic paradigm of network novels.