三角恋爱模式的继承与超越:张爱玲小说《十八春》的叙事

The Inheritance and Transcendence of the Love Triangle Pattern:The Narration of Eighteen Springs by Eileen Chang

张爱玲擅长以三角恋爱模式处理都市男女的情感纠葛。在《十八春》中,她构建了多层次的三角恋爱关系,使其成为小说的核心结构,让叙事获得了繁复化、简约化和凡俗化的特征,并在人物形象塑造方面形成了不同的人物功能类型,对叙事空间的布设产生影响。实际上,小说中的三角恋爱模式,是张爱玲对中国近代言情小说中最为常见的故事模式的继承与超越,它赋予了其小说亦雅亦俗的风格,丰富了现代小说叙事的艺术。

Eileen Chang specializes in dealing with the emotional entanglements of urban men and women with a love triangle pattern. In Eighteen Springs,she builds a multi-level triangle relationship,making it the core structure of the novel. It makes the narration more complicated,simplification and secularization and even influences the structure if the narration with the shaping of the characters. In fact,the love triangle pattern in the novels is the most common inheritance and transcendence for the narrative pattern in Chinese modern romance novels by Eileen Chang. The pattern gives the novels both elegance and popularity and riches the narrative art of modern novels.