书房内外——学者小说的“空间观”及对创意写作的启示

Inside and Outside the Study——On the “Space View” of Scholars’ Novel and Its Enlightenment to Creative Writing

“学者”写作群体因所处人文环境的典型性、自足性,及思维方式的独特养成,而成为知识分子群体的重要“切片”。观察这一写作群体的写作取材、叙事手法及审美形式等方面,可见出其对于不同话语空间的思辨及反拨,而这一点也成为穿刺当下学者小说体系的窥口。从戴维·洛奇、索尔·贝娄、约翰·威廉斯等学者作家的经典小说文本及笔者自身的创作经验中得出,学者小说的“空间观”主要体现在学院空间与他性空间的话语关涉、小说叙事的互文性转化与空间流动等方面。这一“空间观”及其所伴生的历史沉淀、价值观厘定和文化主体重认,对于探讨学院派创意写作的发展具有一定启示。

The “scholarly” writers have become an important specimen of the intellectual class because of the typicality of the humanistic environment,self-sufficiency,and the unique cultivation of their way of thinking.Observation on the writing materials,narrative techniques and aesthetic forms of the typical writers’ group can provide speculation and backwash on different discourse spaces,which has also afforded a peep into the current scholar novel system.From the classic novel texts of scholar writers such as David Lodge,Saul Bellow and John Williams,coupled with the author’s own experience of creative writing and research,it is concluded that the space view of scholar novels is mainly refiected in the discourse relationship between academic space and other space,the intertextuality transformation and space fiow of novel narration,and so on.This “view of space” and its accompanying historical precipitation,determination of values and recognition of cultural subjects have some enlightenment for exploring the development of academic creative writing.