世俗与神圣——端木蕻良小说二重空间叙事探析

Secular and Sacred: An Analysis of the Double Spatial Narrative of Duanmu Hongliang’s Novel

端木蕻良在他的系列小说中构建两种截然不同的故乡叙述空间:一个是由现实时空构建的落后、腐朽、压抑,甚至让人绝望的故乡;另一个是由童年、记忆和原始时空构建的神圣、创造,甚至能够让人复活和重生的故乡。这两个故乡空间叙述的相互独立构成了端木小说形式的复杂性和叙事的跳跃性,而两个故乡空间叙述的内在一致性表现了端木深层的叙事特点。他使用神话原型的创作方法进行故乡二重空间叙事,将人物穿梭于现实世俗空间和原始神圣空间,描述的是东北民众作为一个文化集体最为强悍的生命力的创造、觉醒、复活的过程,通过展现东北民众原初记忆中的大地母神与神之子的神话原型,进而表现东北民众独特的精神意识和思维方式。

Duanmu Hongliang created two different narrative spaces in his novels: one is the hometown of backwardness, decay, depression and even despair constructed by real time and space;the other is the hometown of sacredness, creation and even resurrection constructed by childhood, memory and primitive time and space. The mutual independence of these two hometown spacial narratives constitutes the complexity of Duanmu’s novel and the leaping of narration, while the internal consistency of the two hometown spatial narratives shows his deep narrative characteristics. He used the creation method of mythological archetype to narrate the dual spaces of his hometown, shuttling the characters into the real space and the sacred space, describing the process of the creation, awakening and resurrection of the most powerful vitality of the northeast people as a cultural collective. By showing the mythological archetype of the Earth Mother God and the son of the earth in the original memory of the northeast people, he expressed the unique essence of the northeast people unique consciousness and way of thinking.