《牛鬼蛇神》:一部缺乏历史和思想深度的作品

The Monsters and Freaks:A Novel Lack in Historical and Thinking Depth

《牛鬼蛇神》是马原停笔多年后创作的一部长篇小说。小说以多维空间的形式将复杂的历史经验与现实生活的体验艺术化处理,构筑了马原的理想世界,也构成了马原小说的魅力与意义。不过,小说《牛鬼蛇神》在超越与突破马原前期作品的叙事技巧时,也暴露出艺术的贫乏。这主要体现在小说叙事的重复、小说缺乏历史深度意识的发掘与反思以及叙事时空的自我束缚与模仿等方面。这严重削弱了小说反映时代与现实生活的厚度与力度,使得小说缺乏本应该体现出的审美内涵。

The Monsters and Freaks is a long novel after stopping writing for many years by Ma Yuan. In the form of multidimensional space, this novel artistically builds Ma Yuan , s ideal world with complex historical experience and real life experience. Meanwhile, it constitutes the charm and significance of the Ma Yuan. However, this novel exposes poor art in term of transcending and making breakthroughs over the narrative techniques of his earlier works. It mainly shows in repeated recitation, the lack of excavation and reflection of historical depth consciousness and self bondage and imitation of narrative time and space. This severely weakened thethickness and strength of the real life and the era reflected by the novel. It makes the novel lacks aesthetic connotation ought to embody.