文化漫游者的日常漫谈——评阿来《以文记流年》

A Culture Wanderer's Talking About Life:Comment on A Lai's Keep Track of Time in Words

阿来以诗歌出道、以小说闻名,透过其散文却能够观照到作家真诚自由的主体意识与广泛多元的生命体验。他最新出版的散文集《以文记流年》,将文字作为纪念流年的载体,由“云中记”“读书记”“出行记”“怀人记”“鉴赏记”“品酒记”“演说记”七个部分构成,看似零散,实际呈现出日常视阈下作家的生活方式与思想维度,借由书中文字打开幽微入口,走近一个文化漫游者的烟火日常。通过作者对历史人文的追踪勾画与文化现象的深刻反思,表现出知识分子兼具感性体验与理性思辨的创作自觉,显示出不同于其他日常漫谈的思想深度与审美质感。

hough A Lai started his writing career as a poet and became renowned as a novelist,his essay also provides readers a window into his subject consciousness and diverse experience as a sincere writer pursuing freedom.Keep Track of Time in Words,his newly-published collection of essays,is all about his life experience.It consists of seven parts,namely"Wandering in Cloud","About Reading","About Travel","Reminiscence","Connoisseurship","Wine-Tasting"and"About Speech".Seemingly irrelevant,they mirror the writer's lifestyle and thinking pattern through the narratives,thus offering a hint about the writer's daily life.The content about history and humanity,as well as the profound thinking about cultural phenomenon,reflects the writer's emotional experience and critical thinking during his creation.The aesthetic and deep thought found in this essay collection are distinct from that of the writer's other works.