批判还是审美——现代乡土小说的分流与嬗变

Criticism or Aesthetics——the Diversion and Evolution of Modern Local Novels

鲁迅作为中国现代文学史上乡土小说的开创者,影响和吸引了一大批作家将笔触伸向传统的乡土社会,以西方现代性文明为参照,批判社会的"病态"来引起疗救的注意;沈从文等乡土作家则开辟了乡土小说的另一种价值选择,即以审美和崇尚的目光关注原始的自然性生命,使得乡土小说的创作潮流产生了分流与嬗变。但从改造国民性格、重塑民族精神的角度来看,二者又不谋而合,殊途同归。

Lu Xun, as a pioneer of modem Chinese literary history novels, attracted a large number of writers reach out to the traditional rural society to modem western civilization for reference, criticism of the society to the ＂sick＂ caused the attention of healing; local writers such as Shen Congwen, another kind of value choice to local novels that is, to advocate aesthetic and paid attention to the nature of the original life, the local novel creation trend has been split and evolution. But from the transformation of national character, reshaping the national spirit＇s point of view, the two also has the same way.