《张居正》:权力"铁三角"下变法悲剧与作家的诗性叙事

对历史精神的把握和对人性本真的书写,是决定历史小说境界的关键所在。思古源于抚今,优秀的历史文学总是以自己特有的方式参与当下文化重建。熊召政的小说《张居正》以具有典型文化意蕴的“铁三角”权力关系(权力的源泉及其公权代表与私权代表)为叙事框架,演绎了一场转型期变法的艰难历程及其不可避免的悲剧命运,展现了中国文化烂熟期的复杂人性。这在一定程度上反映了现代中国人的焦虑。和谐而颇具张力的叙事风格、宏大而复杂的历史观照、严谨而不失灵动的文化立场以及典雅而充满诗性的叙事语言,使得该书在当下历史小说创作中显得成熟稳健而又别具一格。

Constitutional Reform Tragedy in the Power Relation of "Iron Trigonometry" and Poetic Narration: on the Historical Novel Zhang Juzheng

The understanding of historical spirit and the writing of the human nature are the criteria for the judging of a historical novel.Outstanding historical literature usually participates in cultural rebuilding in its own peculiar way.The novel Zhang Juzheng written by Xiong Zhaozheng builds up a narrative frame with the power relation of "iron trigonometry" provided with the typical culture connotation,reveals the hardship of constitutional reform and its unavoidable tragic destiny in a transformational period,and exhibits the complicated human nature in the context of mature Chinese culture.To some extent,these aspects reflect modern Chinese anxiety.Harmonious and tense narration style,mighty and complicated conception of history,rigorous and flexible cultural position and elegant and poetic narrative language,make this book solid and peculiar among the contemporary historical novels.