新时代的新革命历史小说——论张新科长篇小说《苍茫大地》

New Revolutionary Historical Novels in the New Era:On Zhang Xinke's Novel The Sky and Earth

张新科最新长篇小说《苍茫大地》采用了遴选式创作模式,开创了政府与作家合作的一种新的创作模式。其主人公许子鹤是一个近乎完美的高级知识分子革命者,他的出现为革命历史小说人物画廊增添了新的英雄形象。为建构这一形象,《苍茫大地》采用了嵌套式传记体,空间、时间、语言、文化的跨界书写,科技化智斗情节,浪漫情调的营造等多种新的艺术手法。创作模式、英雄形象、艺术手法的创新不仅使《苍茫大地》成为一部新革命历史小说,而且回应了二十一世纪第二个十年文化变革的诉求。可以说,《苍茫大地》是一部新时代的新革命历史小说。

Zhang Xinke＇s latest novel The Sky and Earth creates a new writing mode in a selective way of cooper ation between government and writers. Its protagonist Xu Zihe is a near-perfect intellectual revolutionary,whose emer gence has enriched the revolutionary historical novels with a new hero image. In order to construct this image,the novel adopts nested biographies with romantic sentiment in a cross border writing style mixed of space,time,language and culture,and even the battle of wits with science and technology. The innovation of creative mode,heroic image and ar tistic techniques not only make it a new revolutionary historical novel, but also react to the demands of cultural trans fermation in the second decade of the 21st century. Thus it can be said that The Sky and Earth is a new revolutionary historical novel in a new era.