主题书写的相似——福克纳对中国新时期家族小说的影响

The Similarity in Themes——The Study of Faulkner's Influence of on the Contemporary Chinese Family Novels

从主题书写上看,中国新时期家族小说与福克纳作品中三大经典主题:即地域情结、历史意识和家族传奇存在很多相似之处。莫言、余华、苏童依据自己的关注点在创作中对这三大主题进行了吸收、借鉴和创新,由此创作出了经久不衰的作品,并对中国现当代文学产生了深远的影响。

William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha novels created on the basis of American South and three themes—South complex, historical consciousness and family narrative have exerted great influence on the contemporary Chinese family novelists. They have exchanged many layers’ dialogue with Faulkner and imitated and absorbed these influences, thus endowing their novels with clear characteristics and profound connotation.