论《考工记》中的历史书写及文化意蕴

On the Historical Writing and Cultural Implication in Kaogongji

小说《考工记》以近代上海历史发展为文学时空,讲述男主人公陈书玉的人生沉浮,日渐式微的家族,以及祖宅的没落,是王安忆上海叙事的又一力作。对历史更迭背景下失利者生存困境的叙写,不仅体现出作者在历史书写中的性别话语平衡和转换,也流露出作者对器物文化的再次关注,而这其中内隐着作者关于历史浪潮中人的生存哲学的重新思考与审视。

The novel Kaogongji takes the historical development of modern Shanghai as the literary time and space,which tells ups and downs of the protagonist Chen Shuyu’s life,the declining family,and the decline of his ancestral home.It is another masterpiece of Wang Anyi’s Shanghai narrative.The narrative of the plight of the lost in the context of historical changes not only reflects the author’s gender balance and conversion in historical writing,but also reveals the author’s renewed attention to the culture of artifacts,which implies the author’s rethinking and examining of the philosophy of human existence in the wave of history.