茶园：残雪全新小说自选集

by Can Xue, 残雪

如果说阅读残雪的长篇小说是暗无天日的艰苦劳动，那么阅读残雪的短篇小说则是在劳动时收获诗情画意。这部由残雪精心编选的十六篇小说集是一条你认识残雪的捷径，通往残雪所开凿的那个庞大而隐秘的文学世界。

毫不夸张地说，当你走进这座迷宫，你将看到一个个诡谲离奇的景色：每逢夜晚就要迎接赶尸鬼的守夜人，坚定的独身主义者爱上一个不存在的人，在高楼大厦间飞墙走壁的蜘蛛人……

在光怪陆离的情节中，残雪以质朴、清晰、凝练、饱含清新诗意的文字，探索自己和人类心灵世界幽暗而辽阔的边界，以人物去捍卫和演绎平凡生活中的英雄主义和浪漫主义，歌颂每个人灵魂的复杂与不可名状。

272 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2020

About the author

残雪

Can Xue (Chinese: 残雪; pinyin: Cán Xuĕ), née Deng Xiaohua (Chinese: 邓小华), is a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer, literary critic, and tailor. She was born May 30, 1953 in Changsha, Hunan, China. Her family was severely persecuted following her father being labeled an ultra-rightist in the Anti-rightist Movement of 1957. Her writing, which consists mostly of short fiction, breaks with the realism of earlier modern Chinese writers. She has also written novels, novellas, and literary criticisms of the work of Dante, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka. Some of her fiction has been translated and published in English.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Wen · Rating 3 out of 5]

充满了象征符号的短篇集，这些故事都是毫无逻辑又无比自洽，算是挺有意思的阅读体验。缺点在于每篇都大约差不多，都是一连串匪夷所思的事情里主角渐渐理解的一个诡异的世界观，都以一句“不要从表面去看”作为核心。但是我基于文本信息又很难像主角们一样读出确实的背后意义，是写人与自然吗？还是权力争斗？不太欣赏这种呼唤读者来解读的感觉。最喜欢《守夜人》和《戴公庙》这两篇

[Wenjing Fan]

读了一些，很“中国”，鬼怪和创造力。不是我喜欢的，但希望她能获诺奖。

[Alan Engel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first two stories in this collection are fantasies in which an older keeper of a tradition passes it to the young protagonist. In “Tea Farm,” the tradition is a farm that was once a tea farm, but is now a termite farm on which termites live in a magical symbiosis with the farmer. In “Secret History,” the tradition is a flock of golden peacocks that live in and around an abandoned temple.

Story 1. Tea Farm

Abandoned by his parents, 13-year old Huang Rock lives with his grandmother. One day, she tells him to visit his Uncle Huang’s tea farm, which is a day and a night away by train. A few hours into his trip, shortly after a cart vendor tells him, “The smarter you are, the worse off you are,” the train accelerates. Some time later it stops at Huang Rock’s station. Deboarding, he looks out at a grim, barren landscape. Pedaling a three-wheel truck, Uncle Huang carries Huang Rock back to his thatched hut through what was a tea farm, but is now a termite farm.

Story 2. Secret History

Zhuoshan is a student who lives along the border between a recently developed neighborhood and one that is dilapidated and about to be torn down. His study overlooks the “Bird” coffee shop, which is run by He Dao, a sixty-some rumored widower. By day, He Dao runs an immaculate coffee shop. According to rumor, by night he raises golden peacocks. But this is not just a rumor. A series of odd events leads Zhuoshan to wonder if perhaps He Dao is himself the golden peacock, and if he is grooming Zhuoshan to succeed him.

[Dongmei Luo · Rating 3 out of 5]

很多人说残雪是中国下一个诺贝尔文学奖的候选人， 我也不知道。我觉得残雪的文字太脱离尘世，有故弄玄虚的嫌疑。而且太诡异黑暗，又缺乏和人性的衔接。我不喜欢。