“大成若缺,其用不弊”——论黎紫书《流俗地》的叙事特征

“Seeminlgy Imperfect,Yet Forever Functional”:On the Narrative Characteristics of Li Zishu’s The Vulgar World

作为马华文坛上独树一帜的作家,黎紫书的小说向来不落窠臼,其新作《流俗地》以盲女银霞看不见的“视域”为辐辏点,折射出南洋华人底层众生相,娓娓道来小人物俗世中的沉浮悲欢。“大成若缺,其用不弊”,“盲”作为一种方法论,成为黎紫书践行其小说实践的有效途径。黎紫书运用在地化经验深情回望故乡,写出马来华人隐秘的爱与痛。与此同时,《流俗地》的“写实”倾向也标志着黎紫书的创作新变,显示出马华文学崭新的特质与可能性。

Li Zishu is a unique writer in Malaysia Chinese literature,and her works are always unconventional.Her new novel,The Vulgar World,through the blindness of the protagnist Yin Xia,represents the life of grass-root Nanyang Chinese and tells their vicissitudes in this vulgar world.Seemingly imperfect,yet forever functional,the blindness,as a methodology,has become an effective way for Li Zishu to write her novel.With a focus on local experience Li Zishu writes about the secret love and suffering of the Malaysia Chinese.At the same time,the realistic tendency of the novel also marks a change of Li Zishu’s writing,showing new characteristics and possibilities of Malaysian Chinese literature.