当代中国社会精神征象的建构与反思——评艾伟长篇小说《镜中》

Construction and Reflection on the Spiritual Signs of Contemporary Chinese Society--Comments on AI Wei’s Novel In The Mirror

艾伟的长篇小说《镜中》采用对称美学,将现实与历史、爱情与欲望、沉沦与救赎、入世与出尘、感恩与仇恨等建构成人性的两极,在阔大的叙事时空中探索人性的隐喻,以爱情为主线形成多元复杂的叙事主题、善恶融为一体的人性立体结构以及从沉沦到自赎的模式。作者在小说中虽设置杭州为叙事场景,却借助镜像叙事来建构隐喻性的精神世界,使得小说对现实生活的镜像式观照功能得以充分展开。小说叙事的宽广性以及主题的多义性、隐喻性,是《镜中》的突出特征,也是艾伟长篇小说创作的最新成果。

AI Wei’s novel In the Mirror adopts symmetrical aesthetics and constructs reality and history,love and desire,degradation and redemption,entry into the world and coming out of the world,gratitude and hatred as the two poles of human nature.It explores deep and broad metaphors of human nature in the vast narrative space and time,takes love as the main line to form a diversified and complex narrative theme,and forms a three-dimensional structure of human nature and a pattern of degradation and redemption.The narrative scene of the novel is set in Hangzhou in the real world,but it constructs a metaphorical spiritual world with the help of mirror narrative,which fully expands the mirror observation function of the novel to the real life.The broadness of the narrative and the ambiguity and metaphor of the theme are prominent features of In the Mirror,and also the latest achievements of AI Wei’s novel creation.