国民性再造的一种民间路径——试析沈从文湘西小说书写的生命形式

A Civic Approach of Renovating Civil Personality:Analyzing the Life Form in Shen Cong-wen' Writing of Western Hunan Novels

沈从文的湘西小说所张扬的生命美学,在中国现代文学园林中大放异彩。他所描绘的苗民的“人生形式”,有着非常丰富而独特的内蕴。同时,他启发人们将目光投向民间,用原始族群文化品格来救治古老民族扭曲、懦弱、保守的国民性。

Shen Cong-wen's novel of western Hunan, which displays the lyric and life aesthetics of a rural style, yield unusually brilliant results in the Modern Chinese Literature garden. The 'form of life' of Miao people that described by Shen represents specially abundant and unique contents. Meanwhile, he inspires people to cast their sights on the folk world, uses the cultural character of the primitive ethnics to treat and cure the twisting, coward, conservative old national personality.