写作的限度——评吴仕民的长篇历史小说《佛印禅师》

The Limits of Writing:A Review of Wu Shi-min’s Long Historical Novel The Zen Master Fo Yin

吴仕民的《佛印禅师》以历史人物为原型,讲述了佛印一生云游逐道,为信仰九死而不悔的人生故事。作品在小说艺术上注重写作的限度,具有明确的形式意识。作者不仅采用了成长小说的线性叙事结构,而且还在贴合人物成长与情节发展的知识叙写中,体现了一种从人学传统向名物学传统回归的倾向。这一变化,反映了吴仕民克制作者意图、解放文本意图的形式自觉意识。

Based on a historical prototype,Wu Shi-min’s novel The Zen Master Fo Yin tells life of Fo Yin who travels around in pursuit of the Buddhism and dies without regret in search of his faith.The work pays attention to the limits of writing,with a clear sense of form.Not only does it adopt the linear narrative structure of the bildungsroman novel,but also reflects a tendency to move away from the anthropocentric tradition and goes back toward the nomenclature tradition in the narrative of knowledge that fits the growth of the characters and the development of the plot.This change undoubtedly reflects Wu Shi-min’s formalistic self-consciousness in restraining the author’s intention and liberating the text’s intention.