茅盾历史小说和施蛰存历史小说之比较

A Comparison between Mao Dun's and Shi Zhecun's Historical Novels

茅盾和施蛰存以古事为题材的历史小说,以运用大量的心理活动作为支撑文体的骨干,从而形成了一种文体独特的历史小说。茅盾着重于人物心理活动的隐秘性,施蛰存则侧重于人物的爱欲心理,甚至是畸形变态的性爱描写。他们对小说文体形式不同的审美追求,形成了不同的创作风格,在人物心理分析运用方面既有相似之处,又有极为不同的地方。历史小说创作在他们整个文学生涯中占有重要和特殊的地位,也代表了作家努力探索新题材、新形式的不懈追求。

Mao Dun＇s and Shi Zhecun＇s historical novels, with ancient events as the subject matters, are of a genre of the historical novel with special literary style full of great quantities mental actions. Mao Dun lays emphasis on the secret of the mental activity, whereas Shi Zhecun, on the psychology of sensual desire, even including the abnormal and sexual love depictions. Due to their different aesthetic pursuit of the textual style of the fiction, their novels bear different stylistic flavors as a result, that is to my, their historical novels have something in common and something quite different in psychological analysis at the same time. The historical novels were very important and special in their whole literature career. These novels are therefore particularly important in their literary career, and are representative of their arduous exploration of new subject matters and their untiring pursuit of new forms.