论中国新科幻的“时间循环”叙事——以柳文扬、程婧波的科幻小说为例

On the Narrative of "Time cycle" in Chinese New Science Fictions——Taking the Works of Liu Wenyang and Cheng Jingbo as Examples

时间作为科幻文学的叙事母题之一,一直是科幻作家们关注和表现的对象。在柳文扬、程婧波科幻小说中,首先,时间循环想象在更新人类认知的同时,也表达了人类对时间掌控的渴望。其次,小说借人物行动展现了他们对人性的审视,藉由时间循环批判了时间对人的囚禁,并在此基础上思考了人与科技的辩证关系。再次,柳文扬、程婧波借时间循环叙事思考了人类未来文明的可能性。在他们的作品里,时间循环的价值不仅在于让人们发现了时间的暴力以及生命的存在意义,还在于它给未来的科幻文学创作提供了更多的可能性。

As one of the narrative motifs of science fiction, time has always been highlighted by writers.The sci-fi novels of Liu Wenyang and Cheng Jingbo break through the traditional time imagination mode, and try to explore the time itself as existence, displaying the literary value of time cycle narration. First of all, time cycle imagination not only updates human cognition, but also expresses human desire for time control. Secondly, the novels show their exploration of human nature through the characters, criticize the imprisonment of time to people through the cycle of time, and think about the dialectical relationship between man and technology.Thirdly, they ponder over the possibility of future civilization through time cycle narration. In their works, the value of time cycle is not only to let people discover the violence of time and the purpose of life, but also to provide more possibilities for the creation of science fiction in the future.