“遥远”的记忆与当下的关怀——《遥远的祖父》面面观

An Overview of The Distant Grandfather

小说集《遥远的祖父》,收入了学者作家汤吉夫先生上至20世纪80年代,下至本世纪初的许多重要作品。在这些题材不同、风格迥异的作品中,我们可以清楚地看到汤先生这些年来在小说创作道路上孜孜不倦的辛勤探索。汤氏小说的最大特点,就是其人格特征已成为其文本构成的一部分了。汤氏小说的立足点,是来自一个独立知识分子的独立思考,而与那种充当着主流意识形态布道者的所谓"介入生活",是根本对立的。就小说的心理类型而言,汤氏小说无疑是属于荣格所说的"心理学式"的。阅读汤先生的小说,我们会每时每刻都感受到那种极为强烈的人文关怀。

Included in the anthology The Distant Grandfather are many important works by the scholar and writer Mr. Tang Jifu written during the two decades from the 1980s to the early 2000, from those works of distinct subject-matters and styles can be discerned the persistent and diligent probe of Mr. Tang in novel creation. Mr. Tang＇s novels are mainly characterized by the fact that his personality traits have become an integral part of his novels, and above all, the standpoint of his novels lies in the independent considerations of an independent intellectual, which stands in striking contrast to the so-called ＂intervention in life＂ performed by the preachers of mainstay ideology. As regards the psychological pattern of his novels, Mr. Tang＇ s novels fall definitely within the category of ＂novels of psychology＂ as claimed by Rongge. When reading Mr. Tang＇s novels, we can always sense the vehement human concern recurrent in his novels.