当返乡者不再离开--评乔叶《宝水》

When Returnees Do Not Leave Again:On Qiao Ye's Baoshui Village

乡村题材作品是中国现当代文学书写中的重要类型,乔叶的最新长篇小说《宝水》是这一书写谱系中的代表性作品,通过对《宝水》的分析,可以窥见乡村书写在当下汉语写作中的新变。《宝水》通过对“气味”的书写展示了一种“有机”生活的可能,这是对现代都市病的一种超越与克服。通过重建情感链接和经济理性链接,“返乡者”和“在乡者”与乡村建立了新的联系,并在互动中推动了乡村的现代转型。《宝水》改写了鲁迅等经典作家开创的“返乡者”必将离开的现代文学传统,如今,“返乡者”不再离开,而是真正扎根乡村,完成自我和乡村世界的和谐共建。

Rural themed works constitute a major writing type in modern and contemporary Chinese literature.Qiao Ye's latest novel Baoshui Village is a representative work in this spectrum.Analysis of Baoshui Village provides a glimpse of the new changes in China's rural writing.By reconstructing emotional and economic rational links,returnees and settlers have developed new connections with the countryside,thus promoting modernization of the rural areas via interaction.Baoshui Village reforms the modern literary tradition pioneered by classic writers such as Lu Xun that"returnees"are destined to depart again.Today,"returnees"no longer leave,but take solid root in the countryside to fulfill their harmony with the rural world.