我最新的小說(shuō)《蛙》中，就出現(xiàn)了我姑姑的形象。因?yàn)槲耀@得諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)，許多記者到她家采訪(fǎng)，起初她還很耐心地回答提問(wèn)，但很快便不勝其煩，跑到縣城里她兒子家躲起來(lái)了。姑姑確實(shí)是我寫(xiě)《蛙》時(shí)的模特，但小說(shuō)中的姑姑，與現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中的姑姑有著天壤之別。小說(shuō)中的姑姑專(zhuān)橫跋扈，有時(shí)簡(jiǎn)直像個(gè)女匪，現(xiàn)實(shí)中的姑姑和善開(kāi)朗，是一個(gè)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的賢妻良母。現(xiàn)實(shí)中的姑姑晚年生活幸福美滿(mǎn)，小說(shuō)中的姑姑到了晚年卻因?yàn)樾撵`的巨大痛苦患上了失眠癥，身披黑袍，像個(gè)幽靈一樣在暗夜中游蕩。我感謝姑姑的寬容，她沒(méi)有因?yàn)槲以谛≌f(shuō)中把她寫(xiě)成那樣而生氣；我也十分敬佩我姑姑的明智，她正確地理解了小說(shuō)中人物與現(xiàn)實(shí)中人物的復(fù)雜關(guān)系。

An aunt of mine is the central character of my latest novel, Frogs. The announcement of the Nobel Prize sent journalists swarming to her home with interview requests. At first, she was patiently accommodating, but she soon had to escape their attentions by fleeing to her son’s home in the provincial capital. I don’t deny that she was my model in writing Frogs, but the differences between her and the fictional aunt are extensive. The fictional aunt is arrogant and domineering, in places virtually thuggish, while my real aunt is kind and gentle, the classic caring wife and loving mother. My real aunt’s golden years have been happy and fulfilling; her fictional counterpart suffers insomnia in her late years as a result of spiritual torment, and walks the nights like a specter, wearing a dark robe. I am grateful to my real aunt for not being angry with me for how I changed her in the novel. I also greatly respect her wisdom in comprehending the complex relationship between fictional characters and real people.

母親去世后，我悲痛萬(wàn)分，決定寫(xiě)一部書(shū)獻(xiàn)給她。這就是那本《豐乳肥臀》。因?yàn)樾赜谐芍瘢�因�(yàn)榍楦谐溆�，僅用了83天，我便寫(xiě)出了這部長(zhǎng)達(dá)50 萬(wàn)字的小說(shuō)的初稿。

After my mother died, in the midst of almost crippling grief, I decided to write a novel for her. Big Breasts and Wide Hips is that novel. Once my plan took shape, I was burning with such emotion that I completed a draft of half a million words in only eighty-three days.

在《豐乳肥臀》這本書(shū)里，我肆無(wú)忌憚地使用了與我母親的親身經(jīng)歷有關(guān)的素材，但書(shū)中的母親情感方面的經(jīng)歷，則是虛構(gòu)或取材于高密東北鄉(xiāng)諸多母親的經(jīng)歷。在這本書(shū)的卷前語(yǔ)上，我寫(xiě)下了“獻(xiàn)給母親在天之靈”的話(huà)，但這本書(shū)，實(shí)際上是獻(xiàn)給天下母親的，這是我狂妄的野心，就像我希望把小小的“高密東北鄉(xiāng)”寫(xiě)成中國(guó)乃至世界的縮影一樣。

In Big Breasts and Wide Hips I shamelessly used material associated with my mother’s actual experience, but the fictional mother’s emotional state is either a total fabrication or a composite of many of Northeast Gaomi Township’s mothers. Though I wrote “To the spirit of my mother” on the dedication page, the novel was really written for all mothers everywhere, evidence, perhaps, of my overweening ambition, in much the same way as I hope to make tiny Northeast Gaomi Township a microcosm of China, even of the whole world.

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