《鲁滨逊漂流记》开创现代海洋小说先河论

Robinson Crusoe : A Pioneer of Modern Marine Novels

在小说一般意义层面上,《鲁滨逊漂流记》既然有相当的理由被学界视为现代小说的先声,那么着眼于小说题材的特殊意义层面,《鲁滨逊漂流记》同样可以有充分缘由被认定为开创现代海洋小说先河之作。具体地说,主要基于两点。首先,作品率先塑造了一个以顽强毅力与无情海洋进行搏斗,靠着自助自救的海外拓殖者形象;其次,作家最先在小说中,将与大陆隔绝的孤岛,作为人与自然冲突的审美表达的载体。如此一来,这部作品"先河"定位的价值意义也就不难凸现了。它们展示了主人公的海洋性格,也奠定了孤岛求生的书写模式。

From a general point of view, the novel Robinson Crusoe has every reason for being academically acknowledged as the fa ther of Modem Novels. From a particular point of view, this paper believes that the novel may have the same reason for being recog nized as a pioneer of modem marine novels. This conclusion is mainly based on two points： the novel is the first to create an image of an oversees colonist fighting persistently and independently against the merciless sea, and it is also the first to use a lonely island as a carrier of aesthetical naration of conflicts between man and nature. So it is obvious that this novel proves itself as a pioneer of modem marine novels by showing its oceanic characteristic of the protagonist, and by developing a model of describing the longlv island survival.