回憶與靈氛：楊牧「奇萊書」系列中的時間敘事

Memories and Aura: A Time Narratives in Yang Mu’s Mount Qilai Series

「奇萊書」系列創作歷時25年，允為楊牧（1940-2020）散文書寫的扛鼎之作。本文指出楊牧的奇萊書系列實為一部「時間散文」，並由此出發，藉由點及面的策略，展示了楊牧「奇萊書」系列裡各種以時間為主體的渲染、聯結，以及錯落部署之藝術性表達。本文首先指出，楊牧善於靈氛之捕捉，以恢復事物本真性和持久性為要旨，重新讓時間有所依止，從而展現「之間」的光輝。但那光輝卻並非僅是點狀的、孤立的體驗，因為每一時刻的回憶靈氛，都自成延續的獨立。除此之外，楊牧尚且經由事件的重新擇取、比喻與象徵，組構成一巨大隱喻，從而完整化時間的意義。最後則提示，楊牧以時間的永恆性、循環性以及層疊交錯的敘事美感，延長了每一個當下靈氛的存在，他以「凝思」進行持續性的生命感知，也提昇了時間本身。可以說，「奇萊書」系列正是一部書寫靈氛、延續時間、形成意義，從而讓時間重新開始，創造出時間的時間之書。

Taking twenty-five years for its fulfillment; the series of Mount Qilai stands as Yang Mu’s prosaic representative. This paper identifies Yang Mu’s series of Mount Qilai as narratives of time and, on this foundation, demonstrates his artistic expressions of rendering, connection, and random deployment upon the subject of time. This paper first points out that, because Yang Mu is adroit at capturing auras, Yang Mu settles time down and reveals the in-between glory so as to maintain everything’s authenticity and persistence. The glory yet should never remain punctate and isolated since the aura of every moment paradoxically grows into continuous independence. Moreover, through re-selection, re-analogy, and re-symbolization of the events does Yang Mu also give rise to a massive metaphor that consummates the meanings of time. This paper then concludes with the eternity, cyclicality, and overlapping narrative aesthetics of Yang Mu, whereby the existence of the aura is prolonged at every moment. While maneuvering theorein (speculate) to extend life perception, Yang Mu also promotes the significance of time in itself. That is to say, the series of Mount Qilai touches on not only auras, the persistence of time, and the formation of meanings, but the creation and re-beginning of time.