科埃略畅销小说叙事艺术探究——以《炼金术士》为例

The Narrative Art of Paul Coelho's Best-selling Novels:Taking The Alchemist as Example

畅销小说一直以来都被视为短时性的流行产物,缺乏真正的文学价值。其与严肃文学的区别,并不仅仅是因为主题的浅薄或内容的重复,同时也在于它们往往采用了一定的适应于市场化需要的叙事艺术。巴西作家保罗·科埃略的小说多年来畅销世界各国。以其代表作《炼金术士》为例,该小说具有题材浪漫化、成长小说通俗化、主题哲学化等叙事特点,这些特点最终形成了一种杂糅的、多元的、通俗化的神秘主义叙事艺术。正是这一叙事艺术迎合了当下消费社会的读者需求,使其成为世界范围内畅销小说的典范。

For a long time,the best-selling novels have been considered as the temporary popular products,lacking the real literary value. The difference between them and the serious literature lies not only in the superficiality of theme or the repetition of content,but also in the fact that they often adopt the narrative art for the need of market. Paul Coelho is a Brazilian writer and his novels sell well in the world. His masterpiece The Alchemist has such narrative features as romanticization of subject,popularity of initiation novels,philosophy of theme and they finally form a mixed,multivariate,popularized narrative art of mysticism,which caters to the readers' needs in the contemporary consumer society and makes it a model of worldwide best-selling novels.