宿命的象征:《世事如烟》的意象分析

The Symbol of Fate: An Image Analysis of Bygones Are Gone Like Wind

余华的小说《世事如烟》充满了宿命论的哲学思想,它不仅表现在人物离奇的死亡上,还表现在作者的意象选择上,《世事如烟》中主要存在三种意象:自然意象暗示了时间的静止,社会意象暗示了空间的封闭,民俗意象直接代表了无法摆脱的宿命,三种意象共同构筑起一个充满宿命色彩的隐蔽的内心世界,使作品充斥着一种末日感,而这种颓废的世纪末情绪不仅是余华个人的精神体验,还是一个时代下文学家们所共有的情绪体验。

Yu Hua’s novel Bygones Are Gone Like Wind is full of the philosophy of fatalism, which is not only reflected in the strange death of the characters, but also in the author’s image choice. There are three main images in Bygones Are Gone Like Wind: natural images imply the stillness of time, social images imply the closure of space, and folk images directly represent the inevitable fate. The three images together build a hidden inner world full of fatalistic color, which fills the works with a sense of doom. This decadent mood at the end of the century is not only Yu Hua’s personal spiritual experience, but also the emotional experience shared by writers in that era.