“当代文学史”的莫言书写——从陈晓明两版《中国当代文学主潮》说起

Writing About Mo Yan in the History of Contemporary Literature:Starting with the two editions of Chen Xiaoming's The Mainstream of Chinese Contemporary Literature

"当代文学史"的莫言书写,呈现出无法有效阐释的危机:或是认知错乱,或是极度失语;莫言成为一个巨大的意义缺失。莫言获得诺贝尔文学奖,让"当代文学史"陷入极大的自我反讽中。陈晓明对第一版《中国当代文学主潮》的修改,是对莫言获奖的回应,它与其说是解决问题,不如说是发现问题;与其说要改正观点,不如说要更新观念。"当代文学史"无法有效阐释莫言的艺术经验并提取为文学史意义,这并非偶然,而是有着深层次的原因。

Writing about Mo Yan in the history of contemporary has presented a crisis that couldn’t be effectively explained.These existing interpretations were either cognitive disorientation or extreme aphasia.Mo Yan has become a great lack of meaning.Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature,which caused the history of contemporary literature to fall into great self-irony.Chen Xiaoming’s revision for the first edition of The Mainstream of Chinese Contemporary Literature was a response to Mo Yan’s award.It was not so much about solving problems as finding them,not so much to correct his views as to renew them.The history of contemporary literature failed to effectively explain the art experience of Mo Yan and extract his significance for literary history,which wasn’t by chance,but for deeper reasons.