从神话叙事到神性写作——论1980年代以来小说叙事的话语谱系

当代小说叙事话语的代际嬗变始于启蒙叙事对十七年小说神话叙事的鼎力反拨,但启蒙叙事这一反神话叙事的话语方式,却逐步演化成了一种以道德神话为内核的新神话叙事。至上世纪90年代初,随着启蒙文学的暂时消歇,当代小说的叙事话语又转向了以欲望叙事为突出特征的世俗化叙事。此消彼长之下,世俗化叙事终以构筑身体神话的方式,取代之前的新神话叙事成为了当代小说的叙事主流。但在此历史进程中,启蒙叙事与世俗化叙事的话语博弈,又于90年代中后期催生出了神性写作这一新的小说叙事话语。从神话叙事到新神话叙事,再到世俗化叙事与神性写作,当代小说叙事话语的发展流变,已然自成系统地构建起了一个相对完整的知识谱系。

From the Mythic Narration to Divinity Writing—— On the discourse development of novels＇ narration since the 1980 ＇s

The discourse development of contemporary novels＇ narration started 17 years ago with the replace-ment of mythic narration by enlightening narration, but enlightening narration, the anti-mythic narrative dis-course, later evolved into a new mythic narration with moral myths as its core. In early 1990＇s, with the tempo-rary science of enlightenment literature, contemporary novels＇ narration turned to secularized narration highlight-ing desires, and secularized narration became the mainstream of contemporary novels. But in the course of histo-ry, the result of the competition of secularized narration and enlightening narration is the formation of divinitywriting in the late 1990＇s. From the old mythic narration to a new mythic narrative, then to secularized narrationto the last, divinity writing, the development of contemporary novels＇ narrative discourse has already constructeda relatively complete system.