无法终结的结尾与当前长篇小说的症候

The Unending Ending and the Symptoms of the Current Novel

近些年来,长篇小说的结尾难题已经成为一个不容忽视的问题,其之所以出现固然与20世纪80、90年代之交的先锋小说对结尾的拆解有莫大的关系,但更与当前“轻快的现代性”的时代状况密不可分。一定程度上,选择的多样性、方向感的缺失和矛盾的无法解决是困扰当前长篇小说结尾的最主要的原因。对很多作家而言,面对如下问题,即如何让自己的主人公停留在人生的某一个点,这一个点既意味着终点,也意味着开始,既是小说创作的难题,更是现实的选择的难题。社会的“加速”发展之下,现实的阐释和重新理论化或许是解决这一难题的有效途径之所在。

In recent years,the difficulty of novel endings has been raised as a problem that cannot be ignored.It is related to the dismantling of endings in the avant-garde novels at the turn of 1980s and 1990s,but more closely related to the current era of "brisk modernity".To some extent,the diversity of choices,the lack of sense of direction and the inability to solve contradictions are the main reasons that puzzle the endings of current novels.For many writers,the problem of how to make their heroes stay at a point in life that means both an end and a beginning is not only a problem of novel creation,but also a problem of realistic choice.Under the "accelerated" development of society,the interpretation and re-theorization of reality may be an effective way to solve this problem.