俗世即景与市井传奇--论《烟火漫卷》与《暂坐》的城市书写

Secular Scenery and City Legends--On the Urban Writing of Yanhuo Manjuan and Zan Zuo

2020年,身居哈尔滨的女作家迟子建、身居西安的贾平凹都推出了以“哈尔滨”和“西京”为书写对象的小说《烟火漫卷》和《暂坐》,两部小说都成为新世纪长篇小说中城市书写的佳作。从“风景”“建筑”以及城市中人的人物形象、人物命运以及情感的变迁中,探究两部小说对于城市的外在形象的建构以及城市精神与灵魂表达。同时,两部小说在叙事结构、叙事方式和叙事语言上都接续了中国传统小说的叙事特点,在他们笔下,人与城在虚实相生、明暗交接中完成了同构,哈尔滨和西安由此成为永恒的文学景观。

In 2020,Chi Zijian,a female writer living in Harbin,and Jia Pingwa,a male writer living in Xi’an,both published their novels Yanhuo Manjuan and Zan Zuo with Harbin and Xijing as the writing objects,both of which have become excellent urban novels in the new century.From landscape and architecture as well as the transformation of human image,destiny and emotion in the city,this paper explores the construction of the external image of the city and the expression of the city spirit and soul in the two novels.At the same time,the two novels continue the narrative characteristics of traditional Chinese novels in narrative structure,narrative mode and narrative language.In their works,people and cities are isomorphic in the process of virtual reality and the transition of light and shade,thus Harbin and Xi’an become eternal literary landscapes.