东西小说文本的美学——从《耳光响亮》到《回响》

The Aesthetics of Dong Xi’s Fiction Texts:From A Slap on the Face to Echoes

从《耳光响亮》到《回响》,东西的长篇小说体现出复杂的文本特性,包括隐喻和互文、解构、戏剧性、戏谑等美学构造及境界。纵观东西的创作历程,他对小说叙事美学有着执着、独特的追求,这种追求源于他对叙事内容和叙事立场的整体性思考,其所要完成的是一种在接受传播过程中能够触发意义再生产机制的叙事性文本。《回响》中对于婚姻生活和情感缠绕的细腻描述、人物间心理博弈和自我纠结的深广挖掘,呈现出一个具有生活经验性真实的隐喻文本,不仅超越了东西自己以往的创作,而且在当代文学中也具有独树一帜的意义。

From A Slap on the Face to Echoes(Huixiang),Dong Xi's novels embody complex textual characteristics,including metaphor,intertextuality,deconstruction,drama,parody and other aesthetic constructions and realms.Throughout his career,Dong Xi has a persistent and u-nique pursuit of the narrative aesthetics of fiction,a pursuit that stems from his holistic thinking about narrative content and narrative position.What he wants to create is a kind of narrative text that can trigger in its reception a mechanism of the reproduction of meanings.In Echoes,The delicate description of marital life and emotional entanglement,and the deep and extensive excavation of the psychological game and self-entanglement among the characters,present a metaphorical text with the reality of life experience,which not only surpasses Dong Xi's own previous works,but also has a unique significance in contemporary literature.