权力的暧昧与人性的坚守——评胡学文的小说《命案高悬》

The Ambiguity of Power and the Persistence of Human Nature

胡学文的短篇小说《命案高悬》是新世纪底层文学的代表作品之一。小说以主人公吴响的寻凶经历为切口介入现实问题,展现出转型时期中国乡土社会中权力关系的暧昧现象,批判底层民众的"底层的陷落",并以此为背景塑造吴响的人性特点,从对朴素的善恶伦理的遵循上升为主人公对人性的坚守,完成对底层民众心灵困境的观照。小说整体以昏暗的笔调对乡村世界进行建构与描摹,并在"寻找"的过程中开掘人性之常,延宕着京派作家的创作遗风,与当下其他相对激进的底层写作形成鲜明对照。

Hu Xuewen's short story Hanging of Destiny is one of the representative works of the lower level literature of the new century. Through the protagonist Wu Xiang's experience of finding the killer as the incision to reflect the actual problem,showing a transition period in China's rural social power relations of ambiguity phenomenon and criticizing the grass-roots' depravity. Based on this background Wu's humanity characteristics was molded. The novel has risen from the adherence to the simple and evil ethic to the protagonist's adherence to human nature and the completion of the view of the spiritual dilemma of the underlying people. It is constructed and traced in a dim tone to the rural world,digs human nature in the process of'finding'. Following the writing legacy of the writers of Beijing style from 1920 to 1930,it contrasts with other relatively radical writings in the present.