《喊山》:北方乡村生活的多重时代回声——山西小说界“鲁奖”风景之三

Han Shan( An Outcry at the Mountain) —A Multi-era Echo to the Rural Life in Northern China——The Sight of“Lu Xun Prize for Literature”in the Fiction World of Shanxi( III)

《喊山》让我们看到了丰富的全方位的历史的发展着的北方乡村图景;看到了女性生命从被摧残,没有自我到艰难生存最终逐步寻找自我的过程。在这其间,个体生命需求与社会既存格局乡村民间伦理现代历史进程相互纠缠,构成了女性形象的丰富性厚重性深刻性。与赵树理从物质的外在实存的社会实现的层面写乡民的生存不同,葛水平是从精神的内在形态的生命倾诉的层面写乡民的生存,这也导致了赵树理的小说注重叙述与白描,葛水平的小说则注重描写与意象。文学奖的评选受一时代文学语境的影响,更为合适的获奖作品未能得奖,是新时期文学评奖时经常出现的现象。与葛水平《喊山》同年发表的《甩鞭》,即为一个实例。

Han Shan（ An Outcry at the Mountain） provides for us a rich and full-range history of development of rural areas in northern China and presents us an insight into the process of females＇ life from its devastation through self-denial and formidable survival to its ultimate gradual self-pursuit. During this process,the individual life demand and the modern historical course of rural folk ethics in the social existing pattern have interwoven with each other,thereby constituting the richness,thickness and profundity of the female image. Unlike Zhao Shuli＇s depiction of villagers＇ survival from the perspective of the exterior,physical and existing social reality,Ge Shuiping has striven to picture villagers＇ life from the angle of the interior and spiritual life aspiration,thus having resulted in Zhao Shuli＇s emphasis on narration and plain depiction in his fiction and Ge Shuiping＇s focus on description and images in his novels. The selection of literary works for a certain literature prize is bound to be affected by the literary context of the specific era,and the more appropriate award-wining works may even fail to be granted the prize,which is something common in the literature award of the new period,one case in point being Shuai Bian（ Whip Swinging） which was published in the same year as Ge Shuiping＇s Han Shan（ An Outcry at the Mountain）.