记忆担荷、双城通灵与想象招魂术——评默音的长篇小说《甲马》

Memory Load,Twin City Channel and Summon Imagination——A Review on Mo Yin's Novel A Horse

以科幻小说起家的默音,继《婆姨的春夏秋冬》后又推出了一部严肃文学的长篇小说《甲马》。虽然小说存在着诸多缺憾,但其展示出的承负记忆重荷的力量,云南与上海双城互通神灵的叙事手法以及向滇西边陲符咒之术汲取养料后召唤出来的沸腾的文学想象力,均使人拍案叫绝,作品还提示了文学写作的某些新的可能性和值得思考的维度。

Mo Yin,who started her writing caree with science fictions,launched the second serious literary novel A Horse. Although there are many shortcomings in the novel,it shows the power of carrying the burden of memory. The narrative techniques of the two cities communicating with Yun Nan and Shang Hai.And the boiling literary imagination that has been summoned to the spell of the frontier,all make people beat about the bush,in addition prompte the certain new possibility of literary writing and the dimension that is worth thinking.