Novelists are forever trying to distance themselves from politics, but the novel itself closes in on politics. Novelists are so concerned with 'man's fate' that they tend to lose sight of their own fate. Therein lies their tragedy.
一直以来,小说家都试图与政治保持距离,但小说本身却永远无法脱离政治而单独存在。小说家都极度关注人类的命运以至常常忽略了自己的命运,他们的悲剧也因此而生。
'The Garlic Ballads' has as its backdrop the story -- based on real events in 1987 -- of poor farmers who storm the county government offices in protest over extortionate taxes, tolls, and fees after their garlic crops, planted at the urging of the local government, rot, unsold, in the fields. The novel begins with the arrest and beating of Gao Yang, one of the leaders of the protest, in front of his blind daughter, then cuts to the doomed lovers Gao Ma and Fang Jinju as they attempt to resist Jinju's betrothal to an older man in an illegal arranged marriage.
《天堂蒜薹之歌》取材于1987年发生的真实事件:贫困的农民响应当地政府的号召大量种植蒜薹,结果蒜薹滞销、烂在地里。农民因此冲击了县政府办公室,抗议过高的税费、过路费及规费。这部小说一开始就描绘了抗议活动领导者之一的高羊被逮捕、被拷打的情景。而这一切,都发生在他瞎眼的女儿面前。接着,作者笔锋一转、切换场景,讲述了一对注定永诀的恋人──高马和方金菊──与非法包办婚姻抗争的故事(金菊在这桩婚约中被许配给一位比她年长许多的男人)。
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