经典重读的现实意义——以《水浒传》为考察中心

Practical Significance of Rereading the Classical Masterpieces:A Perspective of Outlaws of the Marsh

在重读经典的当下,《水浒传》遭遇到"违法"和"暴力"两种质疑。虽然在叙事层面上,《水浒传》体现出一种与法制精神背道而驰的价值取向,但却真实形象地暴露了一个社会法律基本失效的严重后果。小说家通过整体结构的确立以及故事情节的巧妙安排,明确昭示出导致社会法律失效的最根本原因,批判锋芒直指上层统治者。同时,还通过表现社会法律全面失效后对下层民众的生存所产生的巨大负面影响,深刻地揭示出梁山泊好汉以武力打天下的必要性与合理性。《水浒传》经典价值的当下意义亦由此得以彰显。

In the trend of rereading classical masterpieces, we can find two doubts toward Outlaws of the Marsh ： law violation and violence. Though the novel shows a kind of value orientation against the legality spirit on the narrative level, it tells us vividly the serious consequence brought by almost invalid laws in a society. Through the establishment of whole structure and ingenious arrangement of story lines, the novelist explicitly manifests the roots which lead to such legal invalidity and directs his criticism to the upper rulers. Meanwhile, through the negative influence on the people of lower class brought about by such invalidity, he also reveals the necessity and rationality that these outlaws struggle to seize the power with force. Hence the contemporary significance of the classical work Outlaws of the Marsh is displayed.