如何以艺术的方式讲好现代中国故事——苗勇传记文学作品《晏阳初》的“可视化”之路

How to Tell Stories of Modern China in an Artistic Way:On the Visualization of Biography Yan Yangchu by Miao Yong

苗勇长篇传记文学作品《晏阳初》以中国平民教育之父晏阳初为叙述对象,向世界讲述了一个现代中国的历史人物故事,在诸多方面形成了自己的优势与特点。如何以艺术的方式讲好现代中国故事?《晏阳初》在叙述构思上的精巧性、环境呈现上的直观性、人物描写上的特定性、人物对话上的内在性、叙述语言上的抒情性和诗词引入上的镶嵌性方面,走出了一条传记文学创作“可视化”道路,并达到了很高的境界。尽管在文本叙述方面也存在一些缺失,但这些优势和特点,值得传记文学作者进行学习与借鉴。

Yan Yangchu,Miao Yong’s full-length biographical work,takes Yan Yangchu,the father of Chinese civilian education,as the narrative object.It tells a story of a historical figure in modern China to the world,with its own advantages and characteristics in many aspects.How to tell stories of modern China in an artistic way?Yan Yangchu reaches a high level in terms of subtlety in narrative conception,intuitiveness in the presentation of the environment,specificity in the description of characters,inherency in the dialogue of characters,lyricism in the narrative language and mosaicism in the introduction of poetry.These advantages and characteristics are worthy of learning and reference for biographical literature writers despite some inevitable flaws in the narrative aspect of the text.