渡过生的茫茫江面——解读路内长篇小说《慈悲》

Crossing the Boundless River of Life

路内的长篇小说《慈悲》以国营苯酚工厂为观察基点,书写了20世纪50年代至90年代末工人群体的生存境遇和心灵选择。在时代更迭的历史浪潮中,以陈水生为代表的工人们挣扎于生活的暗川之上,为了存活下去,不同的个体有着不同的保命方式,在与苦难现实的较量过程中显示出主体抗争的积极精神。从路内的叙事策略和修辞表达上沿着人物命运浮沉的轨迹,可以管窥小说的主题内容,思考对人生存在的有力叩问,体会其隐忍而深刻的悲悯情怀。

Lu Nei＇s novel Mercy is based on the state-owned phenol factory, writing the survival situation and spiritual choice of workers in the 1950s and late 1990s. In the era of change in the historicaltide, workers represented by Chen Shuisheng struggle to live on the dark river of life, in order to survive, different individual has different ways of life, showing subject＇s positive spirit of struggle and suffering in the process of contesting with reality. Tracking the novel＇s content, thinking of the powerful inquiry of existence and experiencing Lu Nei＇s forbearing and profound compassion from the expression of the narra-tive and rhetoric strategies along the fate of the characters.