有“余味”的叙事——论莫言的小说新作

On Mo Yan’s New Literary Works

莫言于2018年1月推出了小说新作《等待摩西》《诗人金希普》和《表弟宁赛叶》。这三个短篇小说以集束方式出现,不同于以往作品的众声喧哗、汪洋恣肆,从故事内容、人物设置到形式架构、语言叙述都呈现出节制、准确、精到的特性,而化繁为简之后的文本却仍然蕴含着丰赡的思想与美学容量。从民间化的历史叙事到虚实相生的叙事形式再到戏剧性的意象构建,莫言以素朴的叙事话语获取了深邃的精神内核,使故事文本凝聚成有"余味"的叙事,成为了一种寓言。

In Jan. 2018, Mo Yan published his new works -Waiting for Moses, The Poet Jin Xipu and The Cousin Ning Saiye. These three short stories appear in a cluster way, which is different from his boisterous and unrestrained works in the past, and they are characterized by moderation, accuracy, and precision in terms of the story content, the character arrangement, the formal structure and language narrative. However, the simplified texts still contain abundant ideological and aesthetic capacity From the folk historical narrative through the virtual and real narrative form to the dramatic image construction, Mo Yan has acquired a profound spiritual core with a simple narrative discourse, thus having rendered the narrative text into both a narrative with “aftertaste” and a kind of fable.