寻根、理想与反思——论《白鹿原》的历史重建与现实观照

Searching for Roots,Ideal and Reflection--On the Historical Reconstruction and Realistic Perspective of“White Deer Plain”

《:白鹿原》力图重建家族历史和渲染传统文化达到文学寻根和与现实对话的意图。在“历史化”的儒家宗法社会叙事中,《白鹿原》既探赜了清朝末年到新中国成立这一变革时期的民族传统文化心理的复杂性与矛盾性,又有意地融合了20世纪50年代以来的社会巨变和文化震动的“现代性”反思。历史与现实的接洽使得这部1993年面世的《白鹿原》有着进行20世纪民族百年历史回望的宏大创作图景,从而使得《白鹿原》既含括“民族秘史”的历史厚重,也包孕着民族命运发展与民族文化走向的忧心殷殷。

White Deer Plain seeks to reconstruct the family history and render traditional culture to achieve the intention of literary roots and dialogue with reality.In this"historicized"Confucian patriarchal social narrative,White Deer Plains explores the complexity and contradictions of the traditional national cultural psychology during the period of change from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the founding of New China,while intentionally incorporating the"modernity"of social changes and cultural shocks since the 1950s.The connection between history and reality makes this work a good example of the"modernity"of the period of change.The connection between history and reality makes this"White Deer Plain",which came out in 1993,have a grand creative vision to conduct a hundred-year historical retrospective of the nation in the 20th century,thus making"White Deer Plain"contain not only the historical weight of the"secret history of the nation",but also the anxious concern about the development of the nation's fate and the direction of the nation's culture.