对小说艺术的创新与突破——文本论析歌德《少年维特的烦恼》

Innovations and Breakthroughs of Novel Art——A Textual Analysis of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther

歌德《少年维特的烦恼》表现了有关社会和个人的双重主题。小说设置了两条叙事线索,其描写维特作为一个社会人的叙事线索,丰富和深化了小说的社会批评意涵;其描写维特作为一个个体人的叙事线索,表达了作家对极端自我的深刻隐忧。采用文本论析的方法,有助于展示书中相得益彰的两个主题。小说的思想性与艺术性密切结合,体现了歌德在文本中所实现的对德国小说发展史的多重突破和创新。

Goethe＇s The Sorrows of Young Werther expresses dual themes： society and individual. The narrative line in which Werther acts as a society member sharpens the social criticism; the story in which Werther acts as an individual expresses the author＇s deep concern about the extreme self. This paper applies textual analysis to show that the two themes supplement one an- other, that thoughts and art are closely integrated, and that in this book Goethe achieves several breakthroughs and innovations in the history of German novel.