俗之妆扮为雅:文化散文的兴起与败落——以余秋雨散文观及其创作为典型个案

Vulgarity Dressed up as Elegance: the Rise and Fall of Cultural Prose——A Typical Case Study of Yu Qiuyu' s View on Prose and His Works

20世纪90年代,“文化散文”是中国散文界当红的散文品种,其代表人物是余秋雨。余秋雨的散文从《文化苦旅》到《霜冷长河》,是一个逐渐遗落“散文”和“文化”的过程,也是他的散文观从高谈阔论“人类整体感觉”下降为强调“困惑”对散文写作的重要性,到最终声言自己“谈不上什么困惑”的破产过程。从大散文现象的兴起至败落这一过程审视余秋雨文化散文现象,可以清楚地看到在市场化环境中,俗之妆扮为雅,雅对于俗的包装,以及俗对于雅的败坏这一文学史中常见的雅俗关系的再次体现。

In the 1990's 'cultural prose is popular in Chinese prose field, with Yu Qiuyu as its representative. Yu's works from Cultural Painful Journey to Frosty Cold Long River is in a process of gradually negating prose and culture and his view degenerates from pompously talking about all human feelings to emphasizing the importance of perplexity to prose writing and to finally declaring not having any perplexity at all. From the rise and fall of big prose to evaluate Yu's cultural prose, we can see clearly in market economy the truth that vulgarity is dressed up as elegance, elegance is made to dress up vulgarity and vulgarity ruins elegance, which is the usual relationship between vulgarity and elegance in literature history.