平淡背后的残酷——《蛙》的暴力建构及人文关怀

《蛙》延续了莫言小说对暴力的关注。不同于以往小说对直观暴力特征的肆意渲染,《蛙》的暴力因素隐藏在平淡的叙述和琐碎的生活事件之下,高密东北乡民众在时代风云的拨弄下承受着身体暴力和精神暴力双重摧残。莫言对暴力毁灭性本质的厌恶使《蛙》在暴力处理上融入了柔和的人类情感,弱化了“显微镜”式暴力描述的视觉冲击力,赋予了暴力温和的特征,彰显出作家对复杂人性的洞悉及内心深切的生命关怀意识。

Brutality Behind the Bland On the Violent Construction and Humanistic Care of Frog

Frog continues the concern of Mo Yan’s novels on violence.Different from the ingenious rendering of the visual violence characteristics of the previous novels,the violent factors of Frog are hidden under the blunt narrative and trivial life events.The people of Gaomi Northeast Township suffer from physical violence and mental violence under the guise of the political situation of the times.The violent treatment of emotional intervention weakens the visual impact of“microscopic”violence,which is derived from the author’s dislike of the nature of violence,and the violent nature revealed by the gentle narrative manifests the writer’s insight into complex humanity and deep awareness of life care.