“地方”的发现及其小说史意义——当代“方志小说”的历史观照与现实逻辑

The Discovery of Locality and Its Significance in the History of Novels——The Historical Observation and Logic of Reality on Contemporary Local Chronicle Novels

地方志作为史学、地学的结合物,与小说具有叙事同源性关系。在中国小说传统中,方志与小说多有相通之处,且志家与小说家亦有身份的互换。在中国当代小说领域,“地方”的发现与方志成规模进入小说,是中国小说历史结构中“国家/地方”“国家史/地方史”叙述再平衡的产物。“地方”、地方志进入小说,其小说史意义是引发了当代小说的说“小”与“小”说化,且重构着“中国”的地理、历史、美学、语言的多元性。

As the combination of history and geography,local chronicles have a narrative homology with novels.In the tradition of Chinese novels,many similarities are found between local chronicles and novels,including the exchanging identities of chroniclers and novelists.In the field of Chinese contemporary novels,the discovery of locality and the large introduction of local chronicles into novels are the result of re-balancing the narratives of country/locality and national history/local history in the historical structure of Chinese novels.The historical significance of locality and local chronicles introduced in novels is great.In contempo rary novels,it has resulted in a transition of focusing on the small and storytelling from a minute perspective and reconstruction of diversity in geography,history,aesthetics and language of China.