“杨生”晓梦迷“甲骨”——论陈河的《甲骨时光》

Yang's Fascination with Oracle Bone Inscriptions:On Chen He's Oracle Bones Time

旅加华裔作家陈河着眼20世纪二三十年代的安阳考古和古老的殷墟文明,在时间的回溯和空间的流转中,通过非凡的想象演绎了精彩又意味深长的"甲骨时光"。小说通过充满隐喻的互文结构、古今呼应的"有情历史"和天人感应的现代映射,以杨鸣条和贞人大犬这两个文化守夜人为中心,生动呈现了乱世时空中那段曲折的考古经历和古老神秘的殷商文化,表达了作者对那个特殊年代中国考古学者和作为中华文明源头之一的殷商文化的深厚敬意。

Canadian Chinese writer Chen He demonstrated a wonderful and meaningful'oracle bones time'in retrospective time and the moving space through his incredible imagination based on the archaeology of An Yang and the Yin Ruins civilization in the 1920s and 1930s.This novel vividly presents a tortuous archaeological experience and the ancient mysterious Yin-Shang civilization in the chaos of time and space,an expression of the writer’s deep respect for the Chinese archaeologists in that unique time and Yin-Shang civilization as one of the sources of Chinese civilization on the basis of Yang Mingtiao and Zhenren Daquan as cultural night watchmen through inter-textual structure laden with metaphor,'affectionate history'with ancient and modern echoes and modern reflection on the interaction between heaven and mankind.