人心之变与文学之变——《孽海花》、《广陵潮》与晚清社会心态的变异

Metamorphosis of Soul and Literature——Niehaihua, Guanglingcao and Metamorphosis of Social Psychology in the Late Qing Dynasty and Early Republic of China

在清末民初文学中有意识地、自觉地反映社会变迁风貌的小说可以曾朴的《孽海花》和李涵秋的《广陵潮》为代表。《孽海花》主要表现的是社会精英阶层的心态转换,而《广陵潮》则集中表现的是内地民间社会的历史变迁。《孽海花》对历史的表现带有传统史传文学的特点,表现出某种新旧杂糅性。《广陵潮》具有一种原发的自然的民间立场和民间视角,其作品以言情为主线形象地展现清末民初的民俗风情以及其在时代冲击下的演进和蜕变。作家对政治、社会主题的关注,是近代小说由"传统"转向"现代"的开端。

The representative novels which consciously reflect the changes of society in the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China are Niehaihua by Zeng Pu and Guanglingcao by Li Hanqiu. While Niehaihua chiefly reflects the social psychology changes of the elite, Guanglingcao mainly reflecs the historical changes of the civilians in baekland. The depiction of history in Niehaihua, in the style of historical literature, shows the mixture features of new- and- old, while Guanglingcao, in the romance style, describes the folk cultures and customs and its changes from the perspective of the civilians in the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China. The writers＇ concern about politics and society is the beginning when the style of novels develops into the modern one from the traditional one.