追逐与抵抗虚妄的虚妄——论郭昕的长篇小说《驯风记》

The Falseness of Chase and Resistence——on Guo Xin's Novel The Wind Down

郭昕的小说多以进城者为书写对象,展现他们进城后对钱权的追逐,他们进城后虽然物质上不同程度地得到满足,精神上却依然难逃束缚,时刻感到虚无、烦躁、疲惫。他们开始寻求救赎、解脱的方式,马立找到了诗歌,刘湘民找到了听风,而回乡成为他们心灵获得片刻宁静的一致方式。小说中城乡对立模式的书写,隐含了作者对乡村的诗意想象,体现了作者对传统文化价值观的肯定。最终,回乡等方式的救赎也陷于虚妄,在宗教文化的阐释中沦为命定的悲剧。

Guo Xin often writes the migrant workers as his novels, object to show their chase after money and power after they come into the city. Although they get material satisfaction to some extent, their spirit is still in the bondage, and they often feel nothing, irritable and fatigue. Then, they begin to seek the way of salvation and deliv-erance. Ma Li finds poetry, Liu Xiangmin find listening to the wind, and returning to the hometown become their consistent manner of achieving the quiet mind for a moment. The writing of the opposite pattern of urban and rural areas in the novel implies the author, s poetic imagination of the country, which reflects the author, s affirmation of the traditional cultural values. Finally, the salvation way of returning to the hometown falls in vain and becomes a doomed tragedy in the interpretation of religious culture.