后现代元素与民族文化底蕴的结合——维克多·佩列文和他的自由王国

Victor Pelevin and His Free Kingdoms-The Cultural Tradition and Style of Postmodernism

维克多·佩列文是当今俄罗斯文坛最走红的作家之一，其作品形式多样、语言独特，准确反映了俄罗斯当代社会中的诸多现实层面。本文试图通过对作家的创作主题以及后现代背景下的创作特色两方面分析人手，指出后现代元素与文化传统的有机结合构成了佩列文创作的最大特色，亦使作家的创作具有了独特的价值建构意图。佩列文的主人公们无论处在什么样的环境中，都不肯舍弃俄国人固有的“忧思”，其自虐式的精神苦旅中总是隐含着追求自由精神的冲动。因此可以说，后现代作家维克多·佩列文的创作没有停留在浅层次的模仿和赶时髦上，而是凸现出了深厚的民族文化底蕴。他的成功，离不开他用无拘无束的语言创造的“自由王国”。

Victor Pelevin is one of the most preeminent writers in contemporary Russia. His novels profoundly represent various layers of society in Russia today in unique forms and language of marked individuality. This paper tries to pursue the changes in the writer's themes by relating the major characters with their realistic society. Through the analysis, we find that Pelevin's major characters are, like typical Russians, possessed by the kind of 'sorrowful thoughts', no matter where they are and how the conditions might be; and they always have the impulse to pursue freedom on their painful and somehow a little self-punishing kind of spiritual route. Thus we can say that Pelevin's success is largely due to his 'free kingdoms', which are created by his unconstrained language.