延续、转型或重构?--论《人生海海》之于麦家的意义

Continuation,Transformation or Reconstruction?--the Significance of Life Is Like Ocean to Mai Jia

从《刀尖》到《人生海海》,麦家首次告别谍战题材,将目光投向了记忆深处的故乡和童年,以少年成长的视角谱写了一曲英雄的悲歌,通过写英雄之悲勾连起普遍的悲剧,放下了对偶然性的偏执,麦家透过爱和时间让个体与时代命运达成和解,传达出“人生海海”的生命体悟。联系麦家的整个创作历程,可以发现,《人生海海》之于麦家的意义,不仅仅是一次华丽的“转型”,更是麦家回到故乡与童年寻找写作资源的重新出发,显示了他从类型化道路回到纯文学大家之路的抱负与努力。

From the Tip of the Knife to Life Is Like Ocean,Mai Jia bid farewell to the subject of espionage for the first time,turned his attention to his hometown and childhood in the depths of his memory,composed a heroic elegy from the perspective of juvenile growth and drew people s attention to the universal tragedy by describing the tragedy of the hero.Putting aside the paranoia of contingency,Mai Jia reconciled the individual with the fate of the times through love and time,and conveyed the life experience in Life Is Like Ocean.When we review the writing experiences of Mai Jia,we can find that the significance of Life Is Like Ocean to Mai Jia is not only a magnificent"transformation",but also a new start for him to return to his hometown and childhood to seek writing resources,which shows his ambition and efforts to return to the road of pure literature from the road of typology.