从叙事策略看莫言晚熟之“变”

On Mo Yan’s“Change”in Late Maturity From the Narrative Strategy

莫言在小说集《晚熟的人》中以知识分子返乡的姿态对受到现代化冲击的故乡进行观照,刷新和改写了中国农民与知识分子形象,以第一人称限知式视角与元叙述并置的叙事策略创联自传式片段,随着儿童视角与著名作家莫言视角的不断跳跃,莫言在故事中不断入场和离场,初步展现出莫言后诺贝尔时期从虚构到真实、从魔幻到现实、从传奇到日常、从早衰到晚熟、从批判到期盼的叙事张力。他不断打破虚拟与现实的边界,赋予小说寓言化体验,以冷峻缄默的态度笑看人生,叩问人性的虚伪与真实、暴虐与慈悲。

In his new collection of novels A Late Bloomer,Mo Yan explores how modernization has impacted his hometown from the perspective of“the intellectuals returning home”.Mo Yan’s use of the first-person limited perspective and meta-narrative,which incorporates autobiographical fragments,revitalizes the image of Chinese farmers and intellectuals.With the continuous leaps between the children’s perspective and the perspective of the“Famous Mo Yan”,Mo Yan continues to enter and leave the story preliminarily showing that Mo Yan’s“post-Nobel Era”has gone from fiction to facts,magic to reality,legend to daily life,premature aging to late maturity,and from criticism to the expectation in terms of his narrative tension.He constantly breaks the boundary between virtual and reality,giving the novel an allegorical experience,and smiles at life with a cold and silent attitude.Mo Yan questions the hypocrisy,truthfulness,tyranny and compassion of human nature.