《应物兄》:一种百科全书式的写作

Yingwuxiong : An Encyclopedic Writing

来自中原的小说家李洱,经历了13年的沉寂,于2018年底推出的70余万字的长篇小说《应物兄》,与同期推出的徐则臣的长篇小说《北上》,形成了当下文坛的热点。《应物兄》在去地方性写作的框架下,纳入了诸多互文性要素,将多种异质材料拼贴在一起供人拆解,在建构与解构之间将文本的内涵大幅度扩展。在一以贯之的反讽意味和独特的叙述人视角的基础上,作者进行新的诗学构建,描摹出一代知识分子群像,传达出其对于社会人生的深沉思考,使文本呈现出一种百科全书式的样貌。

After 13years of silence,Li Er,a novelist from the Central Plains,launched more than 700,000-word novel Yingwuxiong at the end of 2018,which formed a hot spot in the current literary world together with Xu Zechen's novel Beishang. In the framework of local writing,Yingwuxiong incorporates many intertextual elements,collages a variety of heterogeneous materials for people to disassemble,and greatly expands the connotation of the text between construction and deconstruction. On the basis of consistent irony and unique narrator's perspective,the author carries out a new poetic construction,depicts the image of a generation of intellectuals,which conveys their deep thinking about social life,and present the text as an encyclopedia.