民间话语下的历史审视——评莫言的《生死疲劳》

《生死疲劳》是莫言在艺术创作中向民间文化和民间资源的一次自觉的撤退和回归。小说通过章回体的运用,进行了一次整体的艺术突围。由此,民间的声音打破了历史的沉默,以往宏大叙事遮蔽之下的历史的另一面得以浮现出来。小说不仅展示了民间的生存状态,而且带来了对历史的重新审视。历史的"黑手高悬",一场场以历史的名义发动的无理性运动骚扰着人们,使得人们在与历史的较量中"生死疲劳"。这样,小说以轮回传说的书写形式,在消解现代性历史强力的同时,也表达出一种对生命的深切怜悯情怀。这或许就是莫言在《生死疲劳》中书写民间历史的真正情怀。

Historical Survey under Folk Discourse——Commenting on Mo Yan's Sheng Si Pi Lao

Sheng Si Pi Lao(Fatigue of Life and Death) is Mo Yan's conscious withdrawal and regression to folk culture and folk resources in arts creation.The novel made an integrate breakout by using the writing method of chapter division and folk sound broke the silence of history.History revealed the other side under the former grand narration.The novel not only displayed the folk situation but also made a new survey to history.The so-called "black hand"controlled the world and irrational movements,in the name of history,kept annoying people that made people suffer fatigue of life and death.Thus in the form of metempsychosis legend,the novel eliminated the modern history mightiness and at the same time,it expressed a deep compassion for life.This may be the true feeling that Mo Yan wrote the folk history in Sheng Si Pi Lao.