莫言小说中的民间性探微

On the Folk Nature in Mo Yan’s Novels

陈思和先生于20世纪90年代首次提出莫言小说的民间性论断,在学界引发强烈反响,此后人们开始从民间性角度深入探究莫言的小说创作。通过细读《透明的红萝卜》《红高粱》《檀香刑》《丰乳肥臀》等作品可以发现,莫言小说中包含着雅俗共存的民间语言、丰富多彩的民间艺术、充满顽强生命力的民间人物,这些因素构成了莫言小说独特的民间性特征。莫言小说的民间性色彩与他个人独特的生活经历、当时国内文学创作背景以及拉美魔幻现实主义文学思潮的影响密不可分。

Chen Sihe first put forward the folk judgment of Mo Yan’s novels in the 1990s,which aroused strong repercussions in the academic circle.Since then,people began to delve into Mo Yan’s novels from the perspective of folk culture.A close reading of the works such as The Transparent Carrot,Red Sorghum,Sandalwood Death and Plump Breasts and Buttock reveals that Mo Yan’s novels contain folk language in which elegance and vulgarities coexist,colorful folk art and folk figures full of tenacious vitality,which constitute the unique folk characteristics of Mo Yan’s novels.The folk color of Mo Yan’s novels is closely related to his unique life experience,the background of domestic literary creation at that time and the influence of Latin American magical realism literary trend.