威塞克斯、约克纳帕塔法和马孔多源头初探

A Tentative Exploration about the Original Source of Wessex, Yoknapatawpha and Macondo

文学作品的起因在创造者、创造者的作品又与自身的经历有关。通过对哈代、福克纳和马尔克斯三位艺术大师童年世界和创作过程的追溯与比较,可以清楚地看出他们之间的巨大相似性,原来从多塞特到威塞克斯,从拉斐特到约克纳帕塔法,从阿拉卡塔卡到马孔多,其距离竟是这样相近,仅一步之遥。由此我们从某种意义上似乎也可以断言,三位大师所创造的三个神奇艺术世界实是他们童年孕育的雏形世界,是他们故乡的艺术化显现或翻版,这充分反映出作家成长道路上的一种带有普遍性的规律,即童年的经历对作家一生的影响是巨大而深远的,他们的童年世界往往既是他们艺术人生的起点,又极为可能演变成他们艺术人生的必然归宿。

The origin of a literary work lies in the maker.It is well-known that there always be some relationship between the maker′s work and his or her own experience. By the exploration and comparison about Hardy, Faulkner and Marquez′childhood worlds and the process of their creation, people can see clearly the huge similarity among them.Even so, it is still to our great surprise to find that the distance from their hometowns to their artistic worlds is so near, only one step to rich. From this sense, we may have the reason to conclude that the three fantastic worlds of art created by the three masters are actually the embryonic worlds formed even in their childhood and they are actually the artistic representation of their hometowns. This fact also shows some kind of universal law: namely, the experience of one′s childhood has great and deep influence upon a writer′s all life, the world of one′s childhood is very likely to become both the starting point and the final belongings for his or her artistic life.