官场小说叙事模式的新尝试——评马笑泉《迷城》

New Attempt on the Narrative Mode of Officialdom Novels:Comment on Ma Xiaoquan’s The Lost City

接续20世纪八九十年代的官场小说热,马笑泉近作《迷城》也以反映官场生活为主要内容,与此前官场小说叙事逐渐固化的"成长叙事""官场探微""腐败揭秘"等叙事模式相比,《迷城》之叙事有较新的突破,其主要表现在马笑泉将官场叙事的情节置于传统文化的根柢之上,将文学创作与文化影响相结合。《迷城》之叙事,不仅让小说人物形象更加丰满,小说叙事的根底更为雄厚,而且还改变了已有官场小说叙事模式的单一化局面,兼容了更为广阔的思想与人生之"思",实现了"官场"与"人生"真正意义上的链接,为后续官场小说创作提供了新的书写范式。

Following the popularity of officialdom novels in the 1980 s and 1990 s, Ma Xiaoquan’s recent work The Lost City also takes the officialdom life as the main content. Compared with the narrative modes of "growth narrative", "officialdom exploration" and "corruption revelation" which have gradually solidified in the narration of officialdom novels before, the narration of The Lost City has made a relatively new breakthrough, which is mainly manifested in Ma Xiaoquan’s placing the plot of officialdom narration on the basis of traditional culture and combining literary creation with cultural in?uence. The narration of The Lost City not only makes the characters in the novel more plentiful and the narrative basis of the novel more solid, but also changes the single situation of the narrative mode of the existing officialdom novels, which is compatible with broader thoughts and the "thoughts" of life, realizes the real link between "officialdom" and "life", and provides a new writing paradigm for the subsequent creation of officialdom novels.