知识分子何以“文学”——以叶炜“转型时代三部曲”为中心

Using Literature to Express Intellectuals——Centered on "Trilogy of Transformation Era" of Ye Wei

叶炜"转型时代三部曲"将文学视野投向了大学和学院知识分子,在知识时代的大背景下完成了知识分子小说的文学书写,表现出浓郁的时代性和当下性特征。在作品中,作家关注到社会转型和时代变迁对大学和学院知识分子的深度影响,大学功能的转变,知识分子多元化的价值选择,都使当代大学变成"有故事"的地方,从而成为文学关注的重心之一。叶炜知识分子小说同他知识分子身份以及大学生活经验紧密相连,因此他的创作充满了经验性和自叙传特征。这种经验性特征体现在叶炜小说整体创作过程中,"大学三部曲"是叶炜学生生涯的"青春写作","转型时代三部曲"则是叶炜教师生涯的"中年写作"。从"青春写作"到"中年写作"是叶炜创作成熟的表现,但是这种文学成熟中却又暗藏"中年危机",这是一种来自于生活和精神层面的双重危机。在作品中直接表现为思想的沉重,以及人物的选择性困境和精神痛苦,这是需要引起作者关注和克服的问题。

Ye Wei’s "Trilogy of Transformation Era" cast his literary vision to the intellectuals of universities and colleges. Ye completed writing intellectual novels and showed a strong temporal spirit and current characteristics in the context of the knowledge age. In the works, the writer paid attention to the deep influence of social transformation and the changes of the times on the intellectuals in universities and colleges. The contemporary universities became a place full of "stories" and a significant focus of literature attention due to the transformation of university functions and the value orientation of intellectuals. The creation of Ye Wei’s intellectuals’ novels, which is characterized by empiric and self-narrative biography, is closely related to his intellectual identity and life experience in university. This empirical feature is reflected in the overall creation process of his novels. The "University Trilogy" is the "Youth Writing" of YeWei’s student life, while the "Trilogy of Transformation Times" is the "Middle Age" of his teaching career. From "Youth Writing" to "Middle-age Writing" is a manifestation of YeWei’s creative maturity. But this literary maturity hides the "middle-age crisis", which is a double-crisis from the both level of life and spirit. It is directly expressed in the works as the heavy thoughts, as well as the selective dilemma and mental pain of the characters. This is a problem that needs to be paid more attention to and overcome.