渐进社会工程的象征:中国当代小说城乡对立主题的变奏

Evolutionary Social Project: the Variation of the Antithesis between Town and Country in Chinese Contemporary Novels

运用符号学方法与詹姆逊"政治无意识"理论,考察建国后小说中城乡对立主题的一个表现:进城。经过细读《创业史》、《人生》、《平凡的世界》、《城的灯》等小说,发现爱情婚姻是解决进城问题的艺术途径,进城的道路上浮动着菲勒斯能指,它把城市与农村分别变成了被征服和被抛弃的女人。但同时小说作为社会象征性行为也历时性地昭示了渐进社会工程的进展,进城的道路在逐渐拓宽。

In the article, the author first examines one of the themes reflecting the antithesis between town and country expressed in the novels after the establishment of the new China-coming into city employing the theories of semiotics and Jamson＇s ＂without political consciousness＂. Then the author draws such a conclusion that love and marriage are artistic ways leading to cities after an intensive reading of novels such as A History of Doing Pioneering Work; The Ordinary World; Life; The City＇s Lights. In these novels, cities and countries are the symbols of the conquered and the deserted respectively. Meanwhile, novels, as symbols of social development, also show the progress of evolutionary social project. Therefore, we can read from the novels that the road leading to cities is becoming wider and wider.