阿Q与陈奂生之比较

A Comparison of Ah Q and CHEN Huan-sheng

鲁迅的《阿Q正传》、高晓声的《陈奂生上城》都因作品中成功的人物形象赢得了高度的评价和热烈的赞誉,在中国现当代文学史上拥有很重要的地位。阿Q、陈奂生这两个艺术形象虽然都是农民,但是他们生活的时代不同,就又使他们各有特点了,成为两个不同历史时代的缩影。阿Q是典型的旧式不觉悟农民形象,性格中带有极深的奴性,“精神胜利法”是其性格的主要特征;陈奂生是走在改革开放的大道上,物质生活得到了改善,但精神生活却极度贫乏,憨直、朴实,又带有点“阿Q气”的新时期典型的农民形象。他们性格中落后的东西都因袭了历史重负的缘故,但阿Q性格中的“精神胜利法”与陈奂生性格中的“阿Q气”又是异中有同,同中有异。

The literary figures of Ah Q in “True Story of Ah Q” by LU Xun and Cheng Huan-sheng in “Cheng Huan-sheng Goes to Town” by LIANG Xiao-sheng have gained high applause and approval from the readers, thus establishing for themselves an important position in modern Chinese literature. Although both of the two figures are farmers in identity, they are put in different times of life, therefore each distinguishes from the other as the typical representative of his own time. Ah Q is typical of the peasants of his time yet to be awakened, with a deep-rooted sense of being a slave and a major character of“spiritual victory”, whereas Chen Huan-sheng is a farmer advancing along with the economic reform, enjoying a much improved material life but still quite poor in cultural life, who is typical of the farmers in the new era of China： honest, simple, yet somewhat like Ah Q in style. The undesirables in their personality all originate from the heavy burden of history, and the “spiritual victory” of Ah Q and the “Ah Q style” of Chen Huan-sheng share some differences as well as similarities.