《晚熟的人》:叙事突围、精神还乡与现代性焦虑

The Late Maturing Man:Narrative Breakout,Spiritual Return and Modernity Anxiety

莫言以《晚熟的人》从历史的波诡云谲中脱离出来,带着平和的姿态踏入了纷纭复杂且变化迅速的乡土日常,试图建立与故乡的当下联系;突破自我的“还乡”视角使得故乡重塑的“当下感”得到了强化,叙事艺术的创新也使得文学与现实的联系变得更加紧密;现代化进程的侵袭使乡土社会逐渐走向瓦解,这种“传统与现代”的对立使得莫言关于现代性焦虑的思考愈显深刻。

Mo Yan’s work The Late Ripe Man breaks away from the vicissitudes of history and steps into the complex and rapidly changing local daily life with a peaceful attitude,trying to establish a contemporary connection with his hometown.The breakthrough perspective of“returning home”strengthens the“present sense”of hometown reconstruction,and the innovation of narrative art also makes literature and reality more closely connected.In reality,Mo Yan realized that the local society was gradually disintegrated under the invasion of the modernization process.This opposition of“tradition and modernity”made Mo Yan’s reflection on the anxiety of modernity more profound.