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北京师范大学学报(社会科学版) ›› 2019, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (6): 61-72.

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反传统的焦虑与调适——论郁达夫小说集《沉沦》的“审美辩护”

王炳中   

  1. 福建师范大学 文学院,福州 350007
  • 收稿日期:2018-11-12 发布日期:2020-12-10
  • 基金资助:
    国家社会科基金重大项目“两岸现代中国散文学史料整理研究暨数据库建设”(18ZDA264)。

Anxiety and Adjustment on Anti-Tradition Trend: The aesthetic defense in Depression, the collection of novels by YU Dafu

WANG Bingzhong   

  1. School of Literature, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China
  • Received:2018-11-12 Published:2020-12-10

摘要: 在五四新文学的反传统进向中,传统实际上从未退场,“影响的焦虑”常迫使作家运用各种修辞策略为两者的关系作出调适。以此观照郁达夫小说集《沉沦》可发现,作品中的大胆暴露与病态描写虽然惊世骇俗,但作者也为之作了精心的“审美辩护”。主人公基督徒般的忏悔,目的在于引导读者进入其可理解与同情的内心世界,为其外在的行为作合乎逻辑的归因。基于此导向叙事,《沉沦》各篇的“审美辩护”构成了一个有机推进的“三部曲”:《银灰色的死》主要借助传统家庭伦理为主人公的逾矩行为开脱,《沉沦》篇进一步把主人公个人的“堕落”归因于国家的贫弱,而《南迁》则是对前两篇小说“审美辩护”所留下裂隙的缝合。此外,通过引诗入文,诗歌形而上的玄思及反复性节奏与小说形而下的感抒及持续性节奏形成鲜明的形式落差,后者的情欲与颓废描写由此被前者所净化和升华。“审美辩护”揭示了文学创作的基本规律,对于我们重审百年来中国文学的叙事修辞具有方法论的启示,也可为校正文学批评标准、敞亮作家的精神世界以及重建当下的文学生活提供更为有效的认知方式。

关键词: 审美辩护, 郁达夫, 自白机制, 情欲伦理, 引诗入文

Abstract: Although the anti-tradition trend is the mainstream of the May 4th New Literature Movement, the influence of tradition never disappeared. The anxiety from the contra-directional influences forced writers to adjust the relationship between tradition and anti-tradition by using various rhetorical strategies. From this perspective, YU Dafu's collection of fiction Depression (chen lun) reveals that the author also made a meticulous “aesthetic defense”, though the bold exposure and pathological description in his works could be considred as shocking. The purpose of the hero's Christian confession is to guide readers into his understandable and sympathetic inner world and to make logical attribution for his external behaviors. Based on this narrative orientation, the aesthetic defense in each chapter in Depression constitutes an organically advanced “trilogy”. YU Dafu realized his defense by finding excuses for the protagonist's behavior against the traditional family ethics in “Death of Silver Gray” (yin hui se de si), by attributing the protagonist's personal degeneration to the weakness of the country in “Depression”, and by merging the the cracks of aesthetic defense after the first two novels in “Migration to the South” (nan qian). In addition, the noval writer introduced poems into his novels to make a strong constract between the metaphysical speculation and repetitive rhythm of poems, by which the lust and decadence reflected in the latter are purified and sublimated by the former. “Aesthetic Defense” reveals the basic principle of literary creation, which has methodological implications for us to review the narrative rhetoric of Chinese literature over the past century, and also provides a more effective cognitive way for correcting literary criticism standards, opening up the spiritual world of writers and rebuilding the current literary life.

Key words: aesthetic defense, YU Dafu, function of confession, erotic ethics, introducing poem into novel

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