本次讲座从戴若什有关世界文学的三重定义来考察阎连科的文学地位,随后对比西方汉学家对中国现代文学的截然相反的褒贬倾向,分析诺贝尔文学奖背后的国际文化政治。从莫言领奖发言的两个关键词——“人”与“超越”——作为转折,本文进而探求现实主义的当代演变,以及阎连科“神实主义”概念的创作实践。
This lecture first delineates Yan Lianke’s literary status in line with David Damrosch’s tripartite definition of world literature, and then reexamines the bipolar assessments of modern Chinese literature in Western Sinology in terms of international cultural politics as represented by the Nobel Prize in Literature. With reference to two key words in Mo Yan’s Nobel acceptance speech—“human” and “transcendence”—the article further explores the contemporary transformation of realism and Yan Lianke’s “spiritual realism” in theory and practice.