对传统叙事的回归——论格非《望春风》的叙事特征

On the Traditional Narrative Research of GeFei’s Waiting for a Better Day

格非在其长篇小说力作《望春风》中一改先锋式叙事方式,大胆融入古典小说中的叙事技巧,这些技巧的运用值得学界关注。具体而言,格非通过“草蛇灰线,伏脉千里”的叙事手法,“说书人”的叙事方式,“纪传体”式叙事结构等书写方式,完整并清晰地叙写了一部中国乡村几十年来社会生态变迁史,表现了作者对中国社会下千万个乡村走向命运的关注和思考。与此同时,格非在《望春风》中向传统叙事回归的成因也颇值得深思。

In his latest novel Waiting for a Better Day,Ge Fei abandoned the modern avant-garde narrative style,and involved the narrative techniques of the traditional classical novels.The story rolled out from his pen through the narrative technique of“using clues that seem to have nothing to do with each other while secretly connected”,the style of“storyteller”,the structure of“chronological style”and so on.It was about the history of the social and ecological changes in rural China over the past few decades,showing the author’s concern and thinking about the fate of tens of millions of villages in Chinese society.At the same time,the cause of Ge Fei’s return to the traditional narrative in Waiting for a Better Day is also worth pondering.