《王佛脱险记》的中国形象建构

Creation of China image by The Adventure of Wang-Fo

在《王佛脱险记》中,玛格丽特·尤瑟纳尔试图通过对中国人物形象的塑造与寓言化的摹写完成其关于中国形象的建构。尤瑟纳尔在书写中国形象的过程中充分地揭示了东西方文化的内在精神,同时,她还将其重新整合融入了新的形象当中,这种方法既清晰、直观地揭示了原有文化的内涵,又为读者提供了一种新的文化视角。这种形象学建构的方法摆脱了乌托邦、意识形态抑或符号化的书写方式,打破了中国与西方、感性与理性之间的二元对立,形成了一种积极的建构中国形象的新方法。

Yourcenar Marguerite manages to shape China＇s image through Chinese characters and allegorizing narration in the famous novel of The adventure of Wang-Fo. During the Chinese characters creation, Yourcenar gives up all the preconceived notions and usual idealized, demonized, and symbolization of image creation. Furthermore, She takes advantage of the potential questions so that the image can arouse the reader＇s intuitive aesthetic experiences. Then, with the superb artistic breakthrough in the writing, Yourcenar successfully find a new way to bridge the East-West inner spiritual resonance, at the same time, binary opposition between the perceptual and the rational has been eliminated, which can attain the effective interpretation and establish a more active way to shape China＇s image.