另一种“南方”:阿乙的城镇叙事--论小说集《骗子来到南方》

Another Kind of“South”:A Yi's Urban Narrative——On the Novel Collection Liars Come to the South

城镇作为阿乙的文学创作母题,县城小人物的书写、青年的人生抉择、似水年华的追忆构成阿乙早期写作的主要素材。阿乙的近作试图扭转影像、新闻对南方小城的忽视与遗忘,氤氲着南方文学气息的小说集《骗子来到南方》预示着作家新的写作可能,将南方小城--故乡瑞昌作为写作腹地建构的文本叙事,在作品中有了新的指涉与转变。这部小说集以对时代巨变中的城镇文化的描摹、揭示与洞察,丰富和拓展了当代文学的“南方”地图。

One of the motifs of A Yi's literary writing is the town where stories about a nobody,the life choices of the youth,and the reminiscing of the past years are told,constituting the main materials of A Yi's early writing.A Yi's recent works attempt to reverse the neglected and forgotten small southern cities by images and news.The novel collection Liars Come to the South indicates a new possibility of writing with a new reference and indication to his hometown of Ruichang,a small southern county as the writing hinterland and.This collection enriches and expands the map of the“South”in contemporary literature by describing,revealing and penetrating the urban culture in the great changes of modern times.