郁达夫的诲淫冤罪与自我净化

The Case Involving Yu Dafu's Obscenity and His Own Self-cleansing

郁达夫的小说集《沉沦》面世后,受到诸多文坛卫道士的讥评嘲骂,引发了极大争议。自周作人的辩护文《"沉沦"》在《晨报副镌》上发表后,争议才渐渐平息。不过,《沉沦》的"诲淫冤罪"在表面上似乎是平反了,但这段公案在郁达夫心中留下的阴影却并未抹去。从他先后于1923年、1932年发表的小说名作《春风沉醉的晚上》、《迟桂花》中,可以清晰地看到作者的自我净化。如果说,《春风沉醉的晚上》所描述的自我净化,只是一个简短的序曲,那么在《迟桂花》中,这一由动念、忏悔、升华三个阶段构成的自我净化,才作为主部主题得到了充分发展。

After it was published, Sinking, a collection of short fiction by Yu Dafu, was jeered at and abused by the literary apologists, leading to a great controversy. It was not till Zhou Zuoren published his defense of Sinking in the Supplement to The Morning News that the controversy subsided. On the surface, the＇ Obscene Case＇ looked as if it were settled although the dark shadow left in Yu Dafu＇ s heart remained. Still, one can clearly see the writer＇s self-cleansing process from his well-known works such as＇On a Night Intoxicated with the Spring Wind ＇ and ＇ The Late Laurel Flowers＇, published in 1923 and 1932. If the kind of self-cleansing, described in the former, is a brief overture, it is fully developed as part of the main theme in the latter as it is composed of three stages of stirred desire, repentance and self-cleansing.