中国网络小说:公共领域与“三观”叙事——以烽火戏诸侯的网络都市小说为例

The Public Sphere and Narrative Mode of Chinese Online Novels:A Case Study of Chen Zhenghua’s Online Urban Novels

中国网络小说起于民间、兴于网络,它以受众需要为本位,以极致化、多元化的表达打破了传统小说的藩篱,涵盖了古今中外绝大多数小说类型样式。虽然在叙述形式上略显鄙俗粗糙,但其题材内容广泛周至,表达奉行“受众本位”所致的多元化与极致化,真诚坦率、直入人心,是以聚拢了数量巨大、身份庞杂的受众群体,无形中为不同地域、职业与阶层的人们提供了沟通交流的话题平台,业已初具“文学公共领域”雏形。其中网络作家烽火戏诸侯创作的网络都市小说与现实的关联性最强、叙事形态与三观呈现的契合度最高,是其中较具公共气象的重要代表。

Chinese online novels originated from the folk and thrived on the Internet.It is clearly based on the needs of the audience.It breaks the barriers of traditional novels with its extremeness and diversification,covering most of the genres of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign novels.Although the narrative form is a bit vulgar and crude,its subject matter is extensive and thoughtful,which is sincere,frank,and penetrating.Moreover,it pursues the diversification and extremeness caused by the“audience-orientation”.As a result,it has attracted a very large and diverse audience,and virtually provided a topic platform for people of different regions,occupations and classes.The communication platform has roughly emerged as the prototype of the“literary public sphere”.Chen Zhenghua is a representative online novelist in Hangzhou,who has a pseudo name Teasing the Princes with Beacon Fires.The online urban novels written by him have the closest correlation of literary world with reality,the highest degree of unity of the narrative form and the outlooks on the life,world and values,as an important type of literature with distinct public characteristics.