重返历史的隐秘小径——读王小妮短篇小说集《1966年》

Secret Paths Leading to an Invisible Level of Society:Reading Wang Xiaoni’s Collection of Short Stories In 1966

王小妮的短篇小说集《1966年》显示了打开"文革"记忆的另一种方式,即写出"普通人"作为"普通年份"体验的1966年。她的11个短篇像重返历史的隐秘小径,它们以冷静的静观深入时代隐微的深层,辩证地写出了一个动与静、常与变恰如其是的年份,超越了一种"奇观化"的简单书写,完成了对历史经验的真正的诗性转换,在恢复历史与人的可理解性从而真正唤醒历史意识方面做出了独特贡献。

Wang Xiaoni,in her collection of short stories In 1966,reveals another way to approach the history of the Culture Revolution of China by describing lives of "the most ordinary people in a northern city" in an "ordinary year".The 11 stories are like secret paths leading to an invisible level of society,presenting a year characterized by the coexistence of the dynamic and the static(/order and disorder/turmoil and stability),the changed and the unchanged.In a manner that surpasses the "spectacle" strategy,the 11 stories complete a poetic transformation of historical experience.The stories resume the comprehensibility of the relation between history and people and thus awakening readers’ historical consciousness.