论严歌苓长篇小说的机巧睿智之美

On the Literary Aesthetics of Dexterity and Wisdom of Yan Geling’s Novels

严歌苓的长篇小说通俗易懂,雅俗共赏,富有鲜明独特的“家族性”的机巧睿智的美学风格。以文本细续的方式,细致把握和剖析这种机巧睿智之美。首先,严歌苓笔下的主人公既柔弱又坚韧,矛盾冲突的性格张力表现得极其突出;其次,她的作品几乎都能概括总结出一个富有传奇意味的故事框架,而那些充满话题性与争议性的情节设置,又包含严歌苓对历史与存在的二度思考;最后,作品蕴含哲理意味的叙事语言无疑是机巧睿智之美的最佳注解。总之,“反其道而行之”的机巧与睿智之美始终贯穿在小说故事结构、人物设置等方面,不断见证着作家的匠心与巧思。

Yan Geling’s novels,popular and easy to understand,appeal to both elegant and common tastes with a distinctive"familial"aesthetic style of dexterity and wisdom.Reading her main works intensively,this paper discusses the dexterous and wise style at length.The protagonists in her novels are seemingly weak but tough and the tension of their conflicted personalities stands out extremely.Nearly in all her works,there is surely a legendary story framework,in which the setting of plots full of topicality and controversy contains Yan Geling’s second thoughts on history and existence.It is no doubt that the philosophical narrative language in the works best interprets the literary aesthetics of skillfulness and wisdom.In a word,the literary aetheticsaesthetics of dexterity and wisdom to"act in a diametrically opposite way"goes through the story structure and character setting of the novel constantly,thus witnessing the author’s ingenuity.