《虾球传》的接受史

The Historic Acceptance of The Biography of Shrimp

黄谷柳写于1940年代后期的长篇小说《虾球传》,兼具通俗文艺品质与无产阶级革命教育的目标,至今已有近七十年的接受历史。在此过程中,同样的文本因素在不同的历史阶段有着大相径庭的接受史命运。20世纪四五十年代之交,左翼批评界在有限度地肯定其通俗化成就的同时,对作品的革命性表述进行了严厉批评。80年代以来,作品的地域特色与通俗化特征等在评论界被重新肯定,在据之改编而成的电视剧中更得到充分表现,作品的革命性因素则被淡化处理。与此相异,同一时期的文学史写作则以现代性为标尺,对小说基本保持沉默。通过对《虾球传》接受过程的梳理考察,可以深化对中国现当代文学史上大众化问题的理解,管窥半个多世纪以来中国文艺思想变迁的部分图景。

The novel The Biography of Shrimp written in 1947 by Huang Guliu, having both popular literary quality and an education goal of spreading the proletarian revolution, has had a historic acceptance of nearly seventy years. In this process, the same textual factors have had different historic acceptance in different historical stages. In 1940s and 1950s, the left-wing critics approved the novel＇s popularization achievement, but severely criticized its narration of revolution. Since 1980s, the geographical features and popular features of the novel have been re-affirmed by critics and fully absorbed to produce TV serials named Shrimp, with the revolutionary features of the novel being weakened. In contrast, researchers have kept silence on the novel when writing literary history during the same period. By investigating the historic acceptance of The Biography of Shrimp, we can understand the issue of popularization of modern and contemporary Chinese literature more deeply, and catch a glimpse of the changes of Chinese literary theory of more than half a century.