烛照历史的炬火——余秋雨历史散文的价值取向

On Orientation of Values in Yu Qiuyu's Historical Prose

余秋雨散文的实质是倡导独特的价值取向,彰显对历史进步观的认可甚至推崇,他对历史人物的阐释和判断标准发生了根本的位移,他的作品解构了传统观念中某些含有神权、专制、愚昧成分的观念,并试图延续肇始于鲁迅"拯救国民性"的命题,完成知识分子世纪性精神引渡的使命。值得一提的是:他首次将商人阶层纳入散文创作视野,这是散文题材的一次重要开拓和创新。余秋雨的历史文化散文因其价值取向,堪称是一把烛照历史,扫荡神权、专制、愚昧阴霾的思想炬火。

Yu Qiuyu advocates a unique value orientation in his historical and cultural prose, which identifies with the view of historical progress. The criterion with which he interprets and judges those historical figures has been modified in order to wipe out the theocracy, dictatorship and ignorance which are still embedded in the traditional ideas. Thus he could continue the proposition of ＂Rescue the Nationality＂ initiated by Lu Xun and fulfill his duty of passing the national spirit on as an intellectual. One thing that worth mentioning is that he begins to introduce the merchant class into his prose, which marks a breakthrough and innovation in prose. To sum up, the value orientation demonstrated in Yu＇s historical and cultural prose boasts an illumination to eliminate the theocracy, dictatorship and ignorance that feature the dark side of human history.