一面病态人格的镜子——浅析老舍小说对官本位思想的批判

A Magic Mirror to Morbid Selfhood——Criticism of Laoshe's Power-oriented Infatuation

作为一个文化型的作家,老舍先生对中国传统文化与社会有着细致的体察与深入的分析,并以其特有的生动、平易、俗白、幽默的方式加以表现,在引人发笑的情节中灌注进一个现代作家深深的忧患意识。老舍小说对旧中国社会尤其是作为帝都的北平,其浓重的官本位文化进行了深刻、形象地揭露与反思,以其特有的创作风格给这些老大帝国的国民们竖起了一面镜子,让人看到中国传统文化痼疾的一面,促使人们对历史以及当前的一些现状进行反思。

As a writer who was good at culture studies, Laoshe had exqusite insight into Chinese traditional culture and society and an ability to analyze human nature profoundly and, what＇ s more, he could represent what he grasped in his peculiar style -- vivid, simple, plain and humorous. He mixed his misery as a modern thinker ought to express with funny plots. In Laoshe＇ s novels, he pondered and disclosed the culture of power-oriented infatuation in China, especially in the old Beijing where many emperors lived in historically, and provided a magic mirror to Chinese people. This mirror makes us be aware of the chronic illness in our tradition and urges us to care for our history and the status quo.