虚构死亡:张翎近年来的叙事转向与文本策略

Fictional Death: Towards Zhang Ling’s Narrative Turn and Text Strategy in Recent Years

近年来张翎的小说中大量出现"死亡"意象和虚构死亡的不同方式,通过灵魂、自杀、绝境等不同形式的"死亡"书写,使得"虚构"死亡成为创设生命的"非常态"的手段,也成为小说的戏剧性和命运感的来源。并通过叙事视角、物语转换和代际构型的整合,体现出别有意味的故事内核。"虚构死亡"这种叙事新变呈示出张翎在创作技法上的转型和努力,在张翎个人写作历程中具有标志性的意义。张翎借助死亡叙事深入人性的探索和哲学的探讨,对海外华文文学创作在艺术本体和思想深度的推进方面具有重要的意义。

Canadian Chinese writer Zhang Ling is one of the outstanding overseas Chinese writers. In recent years, there are a large number of images of"death"and different ways of fictional death in Zhang Ling’s novels. Through different forms of"death"writing, such as soul, suicide, and despair. Fictional death has therefore become a means of creating "abnormal state"of life, and also a source of drama and sense of destiny in her novels. Zhang Ling’s death narrative in recent years reflects her brand-new narrative consciousness. Through the integration of narrative perspective, material transformation and intergenerational configuration, she embodies the unique story core. The new narrative change of "fictional death"can see Zhang Ling’s transformation and efforts in her literal creation techniques. This transformation has a symbolic significance in her personal writing process. The transformation of "death narrative " is closely related to her personal experience and reading experience. At the same time, with the help of death narrative, she deeply explores the human nature and philosophical exploration, and deeply thinks about the artistic noumenon and thinking of overseas Chinese literary creation. It is of great significance to push forward in depth.