宋澤萊基督教文學研究

Abstract

宋澤萊（1952-）九○年代以來的長篇小說《血色蝙蝠降臨的城市》（1996）、《熱帶魔界》（2001）、《天上卷軸》（2012）融入大量基督教元素；本研究定調其為「基督教小說」為要凸顯此時期有別於過往的鮮明創作意識，也為加強宗教的研究視野，稍稍離開「政治批判」、「魔幻寫實」等前行研究的詮釋話語；透過分析其基督教元素與修辭的運用，闡述這批小說別樣的面貌與性格；尤其把重心放在晚近之作《天上卷軸》，視其為宋澤萊創作的新里程碑。 本研究的研究對象亦包含宋澤萊改宗前的小說作品。因宋澤萊的基督教關懷並非自改宗後才開始，改宗前的許多作品已經流露出痕跡，甚至預表了後來創作的發展；後來的基督教小說亦著實承襲了前期（現代主義時期、鄉土寫實時期、政治小說時期）的創作特色，呈現出「集大成」之貌。故論述將以分期的方式，探討宋澤萊的基督教意識在小說中呈現的階段性變化，析論改宗前與改宗後作品的因果影響。此外，本研究將宋澤萊的小說創作視為基督教文學的台灣實踐。蓋作者「入神入世」的鮮明藝術風格已獲得文壇的肯認，本研究欲進一步藉台灣基督教的歷史、場域生態，與本土神學的發展，觀察其小說創作如何結合「基督教」與「台灣」，企圖闡述基督教文學在台灣的本土化美學特色與價值。

Song Zelai (1952-) has incorporated a large number of Christian elements into his novels since the 1990s: The City Where the Blood-Red Bats Descended (1996), The Tropical World of Demons (2001), and The Celestial Scroll (2012); this study sets the tone for these novels as "Christian novels", in order to highlight the distinctive creative consciousness of this period that was different from the past, and to strengthen the research perspective on religion which slightly departed from the interpretive discourse such as political criticism or Magic Realism of previous studies. Through the analysis of the their use of Christian elements and rhetoric, this study explains the unique appearance and character of these novels; specially puts emphasis on the recent work The Celestial Scroll, which is regarded as a new milestone in Song Zelai's creation. The objects of this study also include Song Zelai’s novels before his conversion, sinse Song Zelai's Christian concern did not begin after his conversion; in fact, many his earlier works before have already revealed traces and even foreshadowed the development of later creations. His Christian novels also inherited the early period’s style (modernism period, rural realism period, political novel period) and presented as a “gathered masterpiece”. Therefore, the discussion will be conducted in stages to explore the staged changes in Song Zelai's Christian consciousness in the novels, and analyze the causal influence of the works before and after the conversion. Furthermore, this study considers Song Zelai’s novel writing as a practice of Taiwan’s Christian literature. The author's distinctive artistic style of “entering into both divinity and worldliness” has been recognized by the literary world. This study intends to further draw on the history, field , and development of local theology of Christianity in Taiwan to observe how his novel creation combines Christianity and Taiwan, attempting to elaborate on the localized aesthetic characteristics and value of Christian literature in Taiwan.