跨越真实与虚幻的界限——从王尔德笔下人物的死亡看其艺术观

Crossing the Boundary of Truth and Fancy——Viewing Wilde’s artistic concepts from the death of his characters

王尔德的小说《道连.格雷的画像》和童话《西班牙公主的生日》中的人物西比尔.文和小矮人的死亡,表面上看是天真单纯的心灵遭遇冷酷自私所导致的爱情悲剧,实际上是他们跨越真实与虚幻之间的界限所付出的代价。这样的情节设置背后是一个典型的唯美主义者的艺术观:艺术具有非现实性,其真正目的是讲述美而不真实的故事,因此在艺术中虚构具有极高的价值,一旦艺术放弃了想象媒介,开始拥抱真实,艺术在形式上的完美就会遭到破坏,艺术也就面临着死亡。

The death of Sibyl Vane in Wilde＇s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the death of the little cold selfishness. But actually they are the costs paid for crossing the boundary of truth and fancy. The artistic con- ception of the author hidden in them： art is unrealistic; the real aim of art is relating beautiful and untrue story. So fabrication in art is of great value. Once the art gives up imagination and begins to embrace truth, the perfection of the art form will suffer from spoliation and the art is facing death.