论《歧路灯》的写人艺术

On the Art of Portrait of the Characters in The Lamp over the Branch Road

《歧路灯》最突出的艺术成就是塑造了众多栩栩如生的人物形象,此小说的人物形象塑造呈现出三个显著特点:一是独特性,败子及浮浪子弟群像,填补了中国古典小说人物类型的某些空白;二是丰富性,同类群像如此之多,在中国古典小说中是没有过的;三是鲜明性,一些反面人物、小人物个性鲜明。作者运用了环境描写、人物语言、心理描写、矛盾冲突及对比手法等高超的写人艺术,塑造出如此众多鲜明独特的人物形象。

The most distinguished achievement of The lamp over the Branch Road is its creation of a number of vivid images who are of the following three features： Number one, its uniqueness： the creating of the image of the black sheep of a family and playboys filled up the blank page of the classical Chinese novels; number two, its diversity of images, there was never that many images of the same kind appearing in the classical Chinese novels before; number three, its vividness： its vivid images of the characters playing a part role in a novel. By taking advantages of the means of environment description, description of the dialogue and psychology of characters, and that of the conflicts, and comparison, the author created a number of live images.