养生与革命的冲突——评张炜的长篇小说《独药师》

摘要

张炜的新作《独药师》依托养生、长生、革命等元素,讲述了一系列关于"变"的故事.从"养一己之生"到"养天下之生"的转变是小说中的核心情节,"变"的整个过程充斥着各种不同力量之间的冲突,养生与革命、传统与现代、社会与自然、身体与政治、儒家思想与道家精神等等,在"数千年来未有之变局"的大时代背景下相互碰撞,强硬的外在冲突一度使两种力量相互绞杀,柔韧的内在思辨最终使它们走向对话,其中蕴含了主人公对生的焦虑、对未来的寻找,在他身上体现了以"仁"、"道"为核心根源力量的传统文化所具有的包容性,它必将在时代的暴风雨后,迎来新的重生,最终完成历史性的升华与跃变.%A new novel of Mr.Zhang Wei, THE SECRET PHARMACIST, relying on regimen, longevity, revolution and some other elements as the carrier of "Change", tells a series of story about "change".The change, the transaction, from "self-health and self-longevity" to "raise the life of the world" is the core of the novel, The whole process of "change" is full of the game playing of different forces, game playing between health and revolution, tradition and modernity, society and nature, people and politics, Confucianism and Taoist spirit, and etc.In the era of big change that never happened during past thousands of years, strong external shock once make the two forces strangle each other;flexible internal speculation make them to dialogue eventually, It contains the dero''s anxiety on life, struggle and hunting for the future;the inclusive from traditional culture, of which "benevolence", and "Taoism" as the core source, could be seen from him.It will usher in new rebirth and ultimately complete the historic sublimation and jumping change after the the storm era.