废墟上的花朵——陈力娇长篇小说《红灯笼》的死亡书写

Flowers on the Ruins——Writing about Death in Red Lantern,a full-length novel of Chen Lijiao

陈力娇的长篇新作《红灯笼》是一部对历史与人性有着独特解悟与拷问的新历史主义小说。该作品从死亡感受与死亡意象展开的精神境域与空间隐喻,内含着伟大而崇高的精神质素,具有超越死亡的自然含义而向社会文化、政治伦理与人情人性多面拓展的丰富意蕴。在作品中,死亡不仅是一种对恶的批判与清除,也是一种对善的温情呵护,还是一种对不义社会的愤怒抵抗,更是一种终结社会之恶的隐喻力量。《红灯笼》的死亡书写充满广阔深沉的人文关怀,带有坚定不移的历史理性,附着着美丽、宁静的神圣色彩。

Red Lantern,a new full-length novel of Chen Lijiao is a neo-historical novel with a unique understanding and questioning of history and human nature.The work expands to social culture,political ethics,human feelings,and human nature from the spirit and spatial metaphor of death feelings and death image,the great and lofty spirit character in death,and the natural meaning beyond death.In this work,death is not only criticizing and elimination of the evil,but also warm care of the good,the angry resistance against the unjust society,and the power to terminate the evil in the society.The writing about death in Red Lantern has extensive and deep humanistic care,the unshakable historical reason,and the beautiful and peaceful holiness.