探索“真正存在过的中国”——论陆天明的长篇小说《泥日》和《木凸》

Exploration of the Real China:On Lu Tianming's novels Ni Ri and Mu Tu

陆天明是新时期文学中被主流评论家忽略、但却是非常重要的作家之一。20世纪90年代陆天明的《泥日》《木凸》先后发表并出版,这两部长篇小说极具"超现实"的"魔幻"感与探索精神,其中《泥日》的"魔幻"具有"史诗"追求与大叙事风格、透露出"文化寻根"意味,《木凸》的"魔幻"借鉴了"元叙事"技法、将历史与文化切割又熔铸成民族化的人物心理结构,这两部"魔幻"之作实则反映了作者对1980年代"寻根"文学和"先锋"文学热潮的个性化思考与回应,而作者后来的长篇小说创作则走出了"寻根"与"先锋"的限定,以更为现实质朴的方式继续书写"真正存在过的中国"。

Lu Tianming is a very important writer of the New Era who has been neglected by the main stream critics. In the 1990s Lu Tianming has published his novels Ni Ri and Mu Tu successively. In these two novels Lu Tianming has explored and developed a style of writing surreal ＇magical＇ stories. The ＇magical＇ Ni Ri is ＇Root-Seeking＇ and tells epic stories in grand narrative form. Mu Tu has used recta-narrative techniques and merged history and culture into the characters＇ psychic structure. Through these two novels, Lu Tianming has responded to the ＇Root-Seeking＇ Literature and the Avant-Garde Literature in the 1980s. And in his following works, he has gone beyond the limitation of the ＇Root-seeking＇ and the Avant-Garde. He continues his exploration of a real China.