写作的限度与抵牾:谈萧乾小说创作中断的原因

The Limitation and Conflict of Writing:The Reasons of the Interruption of Xiao Qian's Novel Writing

以小说家身份闻名又对小说创作有着执念的萧乾却很快就中断了小说创作,不能不引起我们的思考。从萧乾小说的特质出发,会发现诗性特征在成就萧乾小说的同时,也暴露了他在人物塑造和情节安排上的问题,以及个体体验与时代主潮之间的矛盾,导致了他不能顺利写出长篇小说和现实题材的短篇小说。又由于新的历史形势下,萧乾思想发生转变以及对散文和报告文学的自信和依赖,萧乾最终中断了小说创作。通过讨论萧乾小说创作中断的原因,可以看到他的小说特质、文学理念以及写作限度,对理解萧乾的小说创作有着重要的意义。

Xiao Qian,known as a novelist obsessed with writing,soon discontinued his novels,which cannot help but cause us to ponder.We can see that while his poetic characteristics made his novels successful,they also revealed his problems in characterization and plot arrangement,as well as the contradiction between his individual experience and the main trend of the times,which prevented him from writing novels and short stories on realistic subjects.Due to the new historical situation,Xiao Qian's change in thoughts and his confidence in and reliance on prose and reportage literature,he eventually discontinued his novel writing.By discussing the reasons,we can see his novelistic qualities,literary philosophy,and writing limits,which are of great significance for understanding Xiao Qian's novelistic creation.