福克纳的《喧哗与骚动》在语言、视角、结构这三个由低到高的文本层面上,启发了莫言的艺术创新。莫言小说在语言及视角安排上借鉴了福克纳的叙事艺术,以前卫的叙事形式恢复了文学的形象性和可感性,于是促就了审美意识在当时中国文学创作中的回归。同时,基于现实忧患的功利性从一开始就参与到《红高粱》文本的建构之中,并随着文本层面的渐高而越来越取代审美功能进而决定了小说的面貌,最终使其大相径庭于《喧哗与骚动》。 Faulkner’s “Sound and Fury” inspired Mo Yan’s artistic innovation in three low-to-medium texts: language, perspective and structure. Mo Yan’s novel draws on Faulkner’s narrative art in terms of language and perspective and restores the image and sensibility of literature in avant-garde narrative form, thus promoting the return of aesthetic awareness in the Chinese literary creation at that time. At the same time, utilitarianism based on real concerns has been involved in the construction of “Red Sorghum” texts from the very beginning, and as the level of text gradually increases, aesthetic features have been replaced more and more to determine the appearance of the novel. In the “hubbub and commotion.”