真实永远是小说美学的第一要素——谈杨少衡先生四篇小说的艺术局限

On the Artistic Limitations of Four Novels by Yang Shaoheng

真实永远是小说美学的第一要素,文学的真实性是关系到文学作品的艺术生命的重要问题。但是,目前许多中青年作家轻视文学的真实性,轻视文学在表现生活的真实性中本质性的揭示。杨少衡的《我不认识你》《蓝名单》《海湾三千亩》《一O八号文件》等四篇小说都是写官场生活的。由于作家对官场生活缺乏应有的了解,对行政官员的工作作风、生活习惯、思维方式、生活态度等缺乏充分的认识,更多的是靠自己有限的体验和遥远的观察,凭主观臆想来编织故事,未能把笔触探入人的内心深处。因而,作品显得有些空虚、单薄、漂浮。

Authenticity has always been the primary factor in novel aesthetics,and literary authenticity is a vital issue as to the artistic life of any literary works. However,at present many young and middle-aged writers tend to neglect not only literary authenticity but also the revelation of essence in the literary expression of life truths,as is manifest in Yang Shaoheng's novels I Do Not Know You,The Blue List,The Three-Thousand-Mu Bay,and Document No. 108 themed on officialdom. Ignorant of officialdom and of administrative officials' work style,life style,mode of thinking and life attitude,the author of the novels has narrated the tales based on his limited experience and distant observation as well as his subjective conjecturing,thus having failed to delve into the characters. As such,the novels seem hollow,insufficient and superficial.