中国女性的大悲剧——《红楼梦》新读

Great Tragedies of Chinese Females:A New Interpretation of A Dream of Red Mansions

《红楼梦》描写了大观园内外、贾府内外、京都内外、地方城镇以及各处农村山庄的众多女性的生活悲剧,具有很强的历史代表性和概括性,为明清时期诸多女性作品所不能比,且亦以此一伟大特质在四大名著中突出。以全副精神塑造女性形象,在这个意义上,一部《红楼梦》才抵得上整个欧洲文学史的总和,才铸就了她在文学史上难以比肩的崇高地位,在反映女性生活与命运方面无与伦比的认识意义。

The novel A Dream of Red Mansions has described various female tragedies in and out of the Grand View Garden, Jia palace and the capital, the local towns and countries. And it has great representativeness of history and highly gen- eralized. This cannot be compared by those other works concerning females in Ming and Qing Dynasties. And thanks to this feature, it appears quite protruding among all the four great classic novels. The building of female images with all efforts has made the novel unmatchable with all European literary works in history, led to its incomparable status in literary history and the cognitive significance in reflecting female life and fate.