《欲望如烟》中的"堕民"

The Degenerate People in Desire like Smoke

本文从《欲望如烟》对"堕民"形象的塑造入手,初步探讨了沈贻炜先生新作的文化底蕴与艺术魅力。文章指出,作为一部反映清末社会动荡的历史小说。它将历史透镜的聚光点投射到中国社会的一个特殊阶层--"堕民"身上,对"宏大叙事"模式的突破,成为其个性化叙事得以充分展示的前提,显示出作家在处理历史题材创作时的独到之处;在表现手法上,作家将历史的真实与自我人生的经验与顿悟结合,塑造出一批生动可感的人物形象,达到艺术真实与历史真实的高度统一。在贱民问题正逐渐被中国人驱逐到历史记忆深处的今天,这部小说的文化含义尤其值得重视。

This paper, beginning with the portrait of the degenerate people, tentatively studies the exact details of culture and the artistic charm in Mr. Shen Yiwei's recent works Desire like SmokeM points out that this historical novel which mirrors the social turmoil at the end of Qing Dynasty projects the historic focus to the degenerate people in the special class of China. This technique breaks through the mode of grand narration with its individual narration and displays the author's uniqueness in handling historical subject at creation. In the approach of expression, the author vividly portrays a group of moving characters, combining the historical truth with his own life experience and epiphany and achieving the high unity between historical truth and artistic truth. The exact details of culture in this novel are in particular worth noticing as to the problem of humble people today.