压抑·缅怀·觉醒——论陈谦中篇小说《繁枝》

Depression·Honor·Disillusion——Interpretation of Chen Qian's Novella “Branches”

一棵家庭树,引出了立蕙的寻父之路,更隐藏着一个移民家族50年来所发生的点滴。陈谦的中篇小说《繁枝》正如题目一样,许多鲜为人知的枝节需要不断被发掘。小说不仅仅局限于何氏移民家族的故事,而是更多从家族三代人的精神历程出发来着眼于如下问题:生活在20世纪中叶以后的中华民族几代人如何直面历史,如何处理中西文化碰撞下的思想冲突以及如何在觉醒后重新放飞心灵。

A family tree by which Li Hui led the way of looking for father, hides many stories about an immigrant family in fifty years. Just as the title “Branches”, many of the little - known details need to be excavated in the novelette.The novel is not only confined to the ho immigrant family＇ s stories, but much from the spiritual course of the three generations in the family to focus on the following contents： how the generations who lived in the middle of the twentieth Century to face the history, and how should they deal with the conflict of ideas between Chinese and Western culture under the collision and release the soul in the awakening.