“化繁为简”谱新篇——读《严复与近代中国文学变革》

Turn Complexity into Simplification——A Review on Yan Fu and Literary Evolution in Modern China

《严复与近代中国文学变革》一书结合中国近代社会思潮和文学思潮的发展变迁,考察了严复独特的哲学思想和文学理念,并在此基础上梳理出严复与近代文学变革之间复杂的关系。作者认为:无论是理论上的"自洽",还是表面上的"悖离",抑或实际过程中的"推动",严复与近代文学变革之间的复杂关系,一方面展现了近代知识分子在古今中外文化交流碰撞之际为救亡图存所做的艰苦努力,另一方面也反映了近代文学从传统向现代嬗变的艰难轨迹。该书是对严复研究的深化和超越,提供了认识立体可感的严复的新思路。

Yan Fu and the Evolution of China Modern Literature under the back-ground of modern Chinese social and literary trend of thoughts, to anaayze and inspect Yan＇s specific philosophic theory and literary notion, upon which the relationship between Yan Fu and modern literary evolution can be clarified. The author thinks that either the theoretical rationality, or the superfical alienation, or the practical promotion, the complicated relationship between Yah Fu and modern literary evolution not only illustrates the painful efforts made by modern scholars in nation- al salvation during the turn of cultural conflict between the old and the new, home and abroad, but it reflects the rough traces of modern literary transformation from tradition to modernization. The book is supposed to deepen and surpass the research of Yah Fu, and will provide a new clue for understand- ing Yah Fu in a three-dimensional and tangible way.