论关仁山小说的乡贤叙事及意义

On the Narrative of Rural Sage and Significance of Guan Renshan's Novels

在当代作家中,关仁山是在叙写乡贤上用力最多的一位。他通过一系列的小说创作,改写了现当代文学对乡绅、乡贤的叙事范式,重塑了一批血肉丰满的当代乡贤形象,又在继承乡贤文化传统的基础上加以革新,重建当代乡贤文化。在重塑与重建的过程中,可以看出作者的乡贤标准和乡村态度。无论是就乡村文化建设,或是就文学本身而言,关仁山小说的乡贤叙事都有非常重要的意义。

Among contemporary writers, Guan Renshan is the one who has made the most efforts to write about rural sages. Through a series of novels, he has rewritten the narrative paradigm of squires and rural sages in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, reshaping a group of well-rounded images of contemporary rural sages. Moreover, he has reconstructed the contemporary culture of rural sage on the basis of inheriting and innovating the cultural tradition. In the process of reshaping and reconstructing, we can see the writer's standard for the rural sage and rural attitude. Whether to rural cultural construction or to literature itself, the narrative of rural sage of Guan Renshan's novels is of great significance.