格非长篇小说《望春风》的叙事手法探析

Analysis of the narrative techniques of Ge Fei 's novel Wang Chunfeng

格非在其长篇小说新作《望春风》中展现出中西合璧的成熟叙事技巧:经过从作为叙事材料的"本事"对象向作为更高级的艺术情节层面的升华转换,小说最终呈现出来的是一幅由按时间顺序排列事件的历时性基本面和按因果关系排列事件的共时性逻辑面相互交织而成的艺术画卷。其间既迷散着诸如散点透视、草蛇灰线等中国古典话本、章回小说叙事的漫漶色彩,又彰显着"轮回""元叙述""魔幻"等西方现代派、后现代派小说手法的先锋性表征。它成功地打破了传统与精英二元对立的叙事思维,有效地在叙事策略上令古典与现代卯榫在了一起。在叙事话语的层面,《望春风》也实现了长篇小说丰赡多元的话语"双声性"。

In his new novel Wang Chunfeng,Ge Fei displays his mature narrative technique of combining both Chinese and western narration.By transforming the skill from narrating material“story”as the object to that at a higher artistic level of plot,the novel finally presents an artistic scroll of both a diachronic picture of events arranged according to time sequence and a synchronic logical facet weaved according to causal effect.In between are fragmented many techniques not only of classical Chinese narrative novels such as the cavalier perspective or Chinese faint clue,but also of western modernism and postmodernism such as“reincarnation”,“meta narrative”or“magic.”It successfully breaks the binary opposition between the two narratives of the traditional and the elite,and connects classical and modern mortise together in the narrative strategy.In the aspect of narrative discourse,the novel also achieves a rich pluralistic discourse of“double sound”.