阎真小说人物组合论

Character Combination Theory on Yan Zhen's Novels

阎真以"人"作为其小说的叙事核心要素。通过对男女情爱关系的组合和变动来推动小说情节发展,在情节节奏性的推进中实现小说对生存的思考和对精神的体察;通过一组或多组人物的对照组合,在矛盾统一中探寻人物心灵,表达哲学思考;通过虚设历史人物,构成精神背景和精神潜流,让小说中的人物在艰难的生存处境中进行精神参照,获得生命的启示。在多重人物组合中,阎真的小说形成了纵横交叉,立体多维的小说叙事坐标体系,从而对转型期人物生存处境及精神困境进行了颇富深度的揭示。

Yan Zhen takes “people” as the core elements of the narrative of his novels. Through the combination and change of the relationship between male and female love to promote the plot development , in advance of the rhythm of the plot of the novel on the survival of thinking and the spirit to observe;through a combination of one or more groups of characters in the control and in the unity of opposites to explore soul, expression of philosophical thinking; through dummy historical figures, constitute the spirit background and spiritual undercurrent, let the characters in the novel in the difficult survival situation to carry out the spirit of reference, life enlightenment. In the combination of multiple characters, Yan Zhen’s novels form a vertical and horizontal cross, three-dimensional multi-dimensional novel narrative coordinate system, so as to reveal the survival situation and spiritual dilemma of the characters in the transition period.