论《倪焕之》的深层结构及其现代意义

The Deep Structure and the Significance of Ni Huanzhi

抛开表层的、具体的历史时间,以乡镇和上海两个地点为分节点,《倪焕之》的时间可分为三段,在三个时间段中,主人公各完成了一个希望—失望—希望的过程,三个过程的循环构成小说的深层结构。通过这一深层结构,《倪焕之》既暗示了20、30年代作家们为了希望进行失望书写的创作心理,也为现代文学史塑造了一个浮士德式的执着追求的主人公形象,同时隐喻了中华民族100年不懈追求的苦难历程。从这个意义上说,《倪焕之》超越了同时代那些沉浸于书写失望的小说,具有了形而上的象征意味。

Without considering the superficial and concrete time in history, Ni Huanzhiis to be divided into three temporal periods with the rural area and the metropolis of Shanghai as the dividing line, and. In each period, the hero has completed a cycle of hope - disappointment - hope ; the three cycles constitute its deep structure. It not only implies the creation psychology of the writers during the twenties and thirties, and creates the hero＇s persistent pursuit, but is at the same time a metaphor of the Chinese nation~ ceaseless pursuit during a whole century. It is in this sense that Ni Huanzhi surpasses those novels which indulge disappointment writing.