罪与罚及精神救赎——关于艾伟长篇小说《镜中》

Crime,Punishment and Spiritual Salvation:On Ai Wei’s Novel In The Mirror

最近几年,作家艾伟的小说创作呈现出一种井喷状态,先是以包括《敦煌》《过往》《乐师》《最后一天和另外的某一天》等一系列中短篇小说而惊艳文坛,而紧接而来的这部长篇小说《镜中》,不仅有对之前作品中诸如“永城”“戏曲”等文学元素的延用与拓展,更增加了如“建筑学”等新的文学元素以及象征手法的巧妙运用。《镜中》尤为精彩和富有深度的还是对“人性和生命存在的种种曲折幽微处”的理解与挖掘,以及由此而对“罪与罚”这一永恒人性救赎主题的再度艺术呈现。

In recent years,Ai Wei’s novel creation has shown a blowout state.First,he has zmazed the literary world with a series of short stories,including Dunhuang,The Past,The Musician,The Last Day and Some Other Day,and the following novel,In The Mirror,not only extends and expands the literary elements such as" Yongcheng" and"opera" in his previous works,it also adds new literary elements such as"architecture" and ingenious use of symbolism.The novel is particularly wonderful and profound in its understanding and excavation of all kinds of twists and turns of human nature and life existence",as well as the re artistic presentation of the eternal human redemption theme of" crime and punishment".