华东师范大学(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2012, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (6): 24-31.

• 史外文学叙事研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

世纪母题与诺贝尔文学奖的叙事契约 
——山西农民曹乃谦小说的叙事特色

刘旭   

  • 出版日期:2012-11-15 发布日期:2012-11-20
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Motifs and the Narrative Pandering to Noble Prize of Literature: On the Narrative Features of the Novels written by CAO Nai--qian, a Shanxi Farmer Writer

LIU Xu   

  • Online:2012-11-15 Published:2012-11-20
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摘要: 曹乃谦的小说确实有着其过人之处,叙事方式上的极简叙事与叙事人的极力退后策略营造出真实和权威的客观叙事效果,且因为省略和减少叙事干预而给接受者留下了无穷的阐释空间;意义层面上是把中国农村的贫穷和愚昧揭示得入木三分,更多地从意义而非文化客体层面塑造了一个独特的雁北世界。但是,曹乃谦整个创作生涯中对贫穷和愚昧的执着,形成了其文学的三大基本母题:贫穷、愚昧和性欲母题,各个母题在各个文本中重复出现,意味着对中国农村的简单化和丑化,这背后正是与诺贝尔文学的叙事契约,对西方认同的畸形渴望造成了曹乃谦小说严重脱离中国现实,这是中国作家应该反思的重大问题。

关键词: 曹乃谦, 诺贝尔文学奖, 母题, 前现代

Abstract: CAO Nai--qian’s novels do have something special and distinctive. The narrative is quite simple and the strategy of keeping extremely backwards in narrating creates real and persuasive objective effect. Because of omitting and little narrate intervenes, there is boundless space for readers’ interpretation. The profound reveal of the poverty and ignorance in villages in China creates a unique world of Yanbei (regions north of Yanmen Pass) in terms of meaning instead of cultural object. However, with CAO’s indulgence in poverty and ignorance in his whole writing career, there are three basic motifs in his literature: poverty, ignorance and sexual desire. Each motif appears repeatedly in all his works, which means to simplify and defame villages in China. It is the narrative pandering to the Noble Prize of literature and the abnormal yearning for western identity that cause CAO Nai--qian to take himself out of the reality in China in his novels. This is a serious issue which Chinese writers shall take into consideration.

Key words: Noble Prize of literature, motif, pre--modern era