迟子建城市小说论

On Chi Zijian’s Urban Novels

迟子建通常被认为是擅写乡土题材的作家,但随着城市生活体验的深入,其创作早已从“北极村”拓展到了现代都市,如长篇小说《热鸟》《晨钟响彻黄昏》。进入新世纪后的近十年,迟子建对哈尔滨这座城进行了全景式的描绘,相继推出了《起舞》《黄鸡白酒》《晚安玫瑰》《烟火漫卷》等作品,她的城市题材小说逐渐成熟。这种成熟不仅体现在小说人物的丰满、叙事逻辑的完善,更在于其不但挖掘出了城市历史与地理意义上的独特意涵,还在处理城与人的命运连接时,通过自我救赎完成心灵寻根,获得内心的安宁和精神的富足,找到了新的落脚点。

Chi Zijian is generally regarded as a writer good at writing local themes,but with the deepening of urban life experience,his creation has already expanded from“Arctic village”to modern cities,such as the novel“Hot Bird”and“The Morning Bell Ringing through the Dusk”.In the past ten years after entering the new century,Chi Zijian has made a panoramic description of Harbin’s city,and has launched the works of“Dancing”,“Chicken and Alcohol”,“Good Night Rose”,“Smoking in Earthly Life”.This maturity is not only reflected in the fullness of the novel characters and the perfection of narrative logic,but also in that it not only excavates the unique meaning of urban history and geography,but also finds a new foothold by completing the spiritual root search through self-redemption when dealing with the connection between the fate of the city and people,so as to obtain inner peace and spiritual richness.