米香(Mi Xiang)

董立勃在自己熟悉的这片下野地，为我们讲述了又一个西部传奇故事。在《米香》之中，除了和白豆一样的“傻妞”米香，还多了一位上海知青宋兰，让我们体会到《白豆》以外的新鲜，也体会到董立勃突破自我的努力和希望。在新疆下野地的一个农场，爱水的江南女子米香，平凡的上海知青宋兰，，因不同的爱情观而人生命运迥异。米香从执著追求真爱的纯情少女，到怀着身孕被自己的情人许明为追求政治前途而狠心抛弃，开始了另一种自我放纵、令人心痛的生活状态；宋兰由于懦弱下嫁强奸自己的放羊倌老谢，却被农场树为安心支边的典型，提拔为知青干部。感情生活几经起落，最终寻找到一份村妇的“幸福生活”……上海知识姑娘进步成了村妇，江南纯情少女追求成了荡妇。作家魂牵梦绕的下野地，孕育美丽悲剧的能力让我们感叹。而更为感叹的，是其富于意象感和色彩感的语言及其所表达的迷人意境和氛围。时代的更迭、岁月的悲歌、人性的杂芜、情感的较量不动声色地有机地交织在一起。人性的善与恶、情感的真与伪，在清新、凄美的意象中生生不息地在角逐。读者满怀期待的董立勃，继《白豆》之后，讲述凄美故事的能力是否有了新的突破？(Dong Libo told another western legend in the familiar Xiayedi. In Mi Xiang, besides Mi Xiang-“an innocent girl” like Baidou, there was another educated youth from Shanghai, Song Lan which not only made us feel something fresh beyond Bai Dou, but also realize the self-break efforts and hope of Dong Libo. At a farmland in Xiayedi of Xinjiang, Mi Xiang who loved water from the region south of Yangtze River and Song Lan who was an ordinary Shanghai educated youth had different destinies due to different views of love. Mi Xiang was an innocent girl in pursuit of true love, but she was mercilessly abandoned in pregnancy by the lover-Xu Mingle who went after the political future, so she began a self-indulgent and painful life; Song Lan get married with Xie who was a shepherd and raped her, but she was made as a model by the farmland for supporting the border and promoted as the cadre in educated youths. After several ups and downs of emotional life, she finally found a “happy life” as village women… An educated youth from Shanghai finally became a village woman and an innocent girl in pursuit of true love from the region south of the Yangtze River ended up as a slut. Xiayedi, a popular haunt for writers, was of stunning ability to breed beautiful tragedy. What was more stunning was the language full of images and sense of color and the expressed charming artistic conception and atmosphere. Passing of time, lamenting of age, complexity of human nature and competition of emotions were organically and quietly mixed. The good and evil of human nature and truth and falseness of emotion continuously contended in the fresh and beautiful images. The readers expected whether Dong Libo’s ability of narrating beautiful story broke new ground after Bai Dou? )