幽深的林莽丰厚的意蕴--评李传锋长篇小说《最后一只白虎》

<最后一只白虎>作为一部以动物为题材的小说,却有着丰厚多重的文化意蕴.从白虎作为土家民族图腾的层面,它揭示了一个民族古老的记忆及其对原始自然的崇拜;而从白虎与幽莽关系的角度,这部小说又可挖掘出另一层文化意蕴,那幽深的林莽既是白虎的家园,也是生命的乐土,揭示出自然生命的同一性.而作品中所表现的对山野的向往则隐现着乡村诗意与城市发展的矛盾与冲突.多层丰富的文化意蕴,使得这部小说犹如幽深的林莽,引得人们不断的探寻.

On "The Last White Tiger" of Li Chuanfeng's Novel

As an animal novel,"The last white Tiger" has it's rich and thick cultural implications. It brings to light the old memory of the Tujia nationality and it's worship of primitive nature from the level of "White Tiger" totem . There is another cultural meaning in this novel, which is the deep and serene forests is the White Tiger's homeland and the living beings' paradise. The third meaning is the admiration for the mountainous country, which is the contradictions and the conflictions of between the poetic quality of rural area and the development of the city.