游戏与“油滑”的完美结合——对《故事新编》叙事特征的再探讨

Perfect Combination of Game-playing and“Slippery”Language——A Further Study on the Narrative Characteristics of the Old Tales Retold

在小说集《故事新编》中,鲁迅通过自己独特的笔触表现了小说的两大叙事特征,第一是游戏,第二是“油滑”。通过这种看似充满调侃和滑稽的游戏之笔,一方面对古代圣贤和神话英雄进行了凡人化消解,表现了作者独立的历史认识。另一方面作者联系当时现实生活,以游戏手法开始消解圣人英雄的严肃形象,而后又以“油滑”的笔调进一步深入到对现实的批判和揭露,使文章充满叙事的张力。最重要的是,在“油滑”的叙事背后,还隐藏了作者深层的价值判断和现实性批判精神,在调侃中完成了对社会的猛烈抨击。

In the Old Tales Retold,Lu Xun,the author of the collection of the stories,demonstrated two major narrative characteristics of novel:game-playing phrasing style and clever manipulation of the language.Through this seemingly scoffing and game-playing language,the author not only humanized the ancient sages and mythological heroes,showing the author's independent understanding of history,but went further into the criticism and revelation of reality by means of his clever manipulation of language,making the stories full of narrative features.The most important point is that behind the"slippery"narrative is hidden the author's deep values judgment and realistic critical spirit and a fierce attack on the society.