面对死亡的生命追问——当代小说死亡言说形态探析

Inquiry into Death—an Exploration of Types of Death in Contemporary Novels

死亡在中国当代小说中呈现多种形态:在解放后17年小说文本中,体现为英雄时代的悲歌。作家关注死亡所具有的社会、伦理价值,极力张扬英雄之死的崇高人性。20世纪80年代后期以来,作家站在个体生命角度肯定死亡为毁灭的基本特征,并从这种意识出发理解死亡对于生存的意义。在女性作家文本中,死亡表现为死亡与性爱的纠缠、死亡与生育的变奏。

As to the types of death, contemporary Chinese novels present many forms： flint, in the 17-year period, the novels put deaths as a heroic sad melody, for the writers concerned about the social and ethical values embodied in the death, and they tried to amplify the lofty humanity in the heroic death. Then ever since the late 1980＇s, from the viewpoint of individual persons, the writers affirmed the characteristics of death as extermination, from which they have acquired the meaning of death to the existence of lives. And then in the feminine literature, death is described as the entanglement of death and love, and as the variation of death and procreation.