“民族史诗-元小说”织体形态--一种对徐则臣《北上》的社会史读法  

Texture of National Epic and Metafiction":An Interpretation of Xu Zechen's Northward from the Perspective of Social History

作　　者：陈思[1] Chen Si

机构地区：[1]中国社会科学院文学研究所,北京100732

出　　处：《中国文学批评》2022年第3期22-32,189,共12页Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

摘　　要：以社会史视野观照徐则臣的长篇小说《北上》,可以看到,小说家为了实现其四重雄心,在《北上》中聚焦1900-2014年的百年中国历史,形成了“民族史诗-元小说”的织体形态。小说一方面对大运河沿线地理与晚清历史细节着力甚多,虚实结合覆盖较长的时间跨度,形成“民族史诗”式的历史感;另一方面暗示读者文本作为“小说”的虚构性,生成“元小说”的自我意识,让历史感不断自我生成又自我解离。小说对“历史”的探讨就此止步,但通过打开社会史的视野,我们发现小说在晚清知识分子心路、东西方文明交融现场、大运河整体认知上仍有继续讨论的空间。Examining Xu Zechen’s novel Northwardfrom the perspective of social history can reveal that the novelist focused on the Chinese history between 1900 and 2014 to realize his four ambitions,forming a texture of “national epic and metafiction.”On the one hand,the novel puts forth effort on geographical conditions along the Grand Canal and historical details of late Qing dynasty that spans a relatively long period with a combination of realistic and imaginary descriptions.Thus,a historical sense of national epic has taken shape.On the other hand,the novel suggests readers that texts,serving as fictionality of “novel,” has formed a self-awareness of“metafiction,”allowing the historical sense to repeat itself between self-generation and self-dissociation.

关 键 词：《北上》 “民族史诗-元小说”织体 社会史 

分 类 号：I207.425[文学—中国文学]