荒诞何以成奇观——读余华小说《第七天》

《第七天》运用“以死写生”的荒诞方式,串联起一系列的荒诞事件,呈现两个截然相反的世界——出生者世界和死者世界,表层的荒诞叙事下是深层的荒诞意义.小说通过对生者世界、死者世界里的“死无葬身之地”和“安息之地”的矛盾化叙事,呈现了余华对社会荒诞的绝望以及对普通大众的同情与悲悯,以此构成荒诞化的奇观.但作者结构“荒诞奇观”的内在逻辑——简单的二分对立,使得“荒诞”缺乏力量.

How Absurdity Turns into a Spectacle——Reading Yuhua＆#39;s Novel The Seventh Day

With the absurd way of describing the life by the death and the connection of a series of absurd events, Yuhua shows readers two diametrically opposite worlds in his novel The Seven Day--living word and dead world. Under the superficial absurd narration, the author wants to express the much deeper ridiculous meaning. Through the contradictory narrative about ＂ dying without a burying place ＂ and ＂ having a resting place＂ in the living world and the dead world,The novel presents the authorg desperation on social absurdity and his sympathy and compassion for the general public, and thus forms one spectacle of absurdity. But the author＇sinternal logic in the structure of ＂absurd spectacle＂ is the simple binary contrast,making absurdity lack of strength.