“寻找”中的主体:重探王安忆《海上繁华梦》

The Subject in the“Pursuit”:A Re-exploration of Wang Anyi’s A Dream of Prosperity at Sea

《海上繁华梦》是王安忆小说创作历程中的重要节点,其后续创作的大部分作品都与之相关。虽然不是20世纪80年代寻根文学运动的中心人物,但是王安忆由这部小说而开辟“寻找上海”的都市寻根母题并一以贯之,《长恨歌》《天香》《考工记》条条大路通“寻根”。《海上繁华梦》寻根接引都市上海的“门厅”,其后才穿行一座座巍峨殿宇,作家寻找中的主体导引我们二三十年的阅读经历几度辉煌。王安忆同侪的创作历程、根系注释了寻根文学运动的历史价值,更昭示作家践行某种文学理念的可贵是在于创生自己的小说诗学。王安忆根植人心、生计、习染时尚的都市小说诗学的建构,《海上繁华梦》开启都市寻根一脉,嗣其业精于勤而后方成。

A Dream of Prosperity at Sea is an important node in Wang Anyi’s novel creation process,and most of his subsequent works are related to it.Though not the central figure of the root-seeking literary movement in the 1980s,Wang Anyi has initiated the urban root-seeking motif of“searching for Shanghai”in this novel and has always adhered to such a theme,as is manifest in The Song of Everlasting Sorrow,Tian Xiang,and Kao Gong Ji.A Dream of Prosperity at Sea seeks its roots and leads to the“hallway”of Shanghai,and then goes through the towering palaces,while the subject in the search of the writer has led us to several glorious reading experiences in the past 20 or 30 years.The historical value of the root-seeking literary movement is illustrated by the writing process and root system of Wang Anyi’s peers,which also shows that the value of a writer’s practice of a certain literary idea lies in the creation of his or her own novel poetics.With his poetic construction of urban novels being rooted in the popular feeling,livelihood and fashion,Wang Anyi’s A Dream of Prosperity at Sea has ushered in the motif of urban root-seeking,and has inherited his professionalism and diligence.