论张天翼笔下的“向上爬”小人物形象

Images of the Little People in Zhang Tianyi's Articles

中国近现代社会特殊的演进过程造就了一批生存于社会阶层缝隙之中的城市小人物,张天翼将这些小人物纳入观照视野,在他的文学世界里逐渐形成一个"向上爬"小人物形象系列。张天翼往往淡化小人物物质和经济上的贫穷和困顿,更多地着墨于小人物受到"古训"戕害后的精神状态和思想境界,深刻挖掘下层民众身上的国民劣根性。张天翼对于小人物的独特观照,显示了知识分子话语的理性警觉和对于民间大众话语的善意警示。

The special evolution of Chinese modem society results in a number of little people who live in the social class gap, and they are described with details in Zhang Tianyi＇s articles. In his works, Zhang Tianyi often plays down poverty and hardship in those little people ＇s lives but pays more attention to their mental state after they are harmed by ＂ancient speech＂, and show the evil at the bottom of those people . The description of little people shows the vigilance of intellectuals and a kindly hint for the pragmatic discourse among average people.