莫言的《蛙》是新近出版的长篇小说,受到我国文坛的热烈关注。这部小说创作手法别具一格,它由四封长信和一部话剧构成,讲述了一个乡村妇产科医生的人生经历,表现一个时代的难和痛。总体来看,小说通过“蛙”这一核心意象,展示出其三重含义:即自然之蛙、图腾之娲和生命之娃。对自然界的蛙,作家既写出了喜爱,也写出了恐惧。对作为图腾的蛙(娲),作家既写出了崇拜,也写出现实的反讽。对作为人的生命的蛙(娃),作家塑造了集“接生之圣母”与“杀人之妖魔”于一身的姑姑。小说赋予这三重意象以爱恨交织的复杂情感,并以此写出了对生命尊敬的呼唤。 Mo Yan’s “Frog” is a newly published novel that has received enthusiastic attention from the Chinese literary world. This novel has a unique style of writing. It consists of four long letters and a drama. It tells the story of a rural obstetrician’s life experience, showing the difficulties and pains of an era. Generally speaking, the novel shows its triple meaning through the core image of “frog”: the frog of nature, the totem of the totem and the baby of life. Frogs and writers in nature write both love and fear. As a frog (娲) as a totem, the writer not only wrote the worship but also wrote the real irony. As a human being’s frog (doll), the author created an aunt in one set “Born Virgin” and “Murdered Demons”. The novel gives the complex image of the three images with love and hatred and draws the call of respect for life.