时空维度下的《儒林外史》匡超人形象

A Study of Image of Kuang Chao-ren in The Scholars from Time-space Dimension

匡超人父子在微观的时间维度上体现了"一代人不如一代人"的社会现象,昭示封建社会末期宗法血缘关系已无法抵御功名富贵冲击、伦理道德沦丧的现实。匡超人的籍贯设置别具匠心,流动开放的活动空间、频繁的地域转换和漫长的空间位移,实现了士人个体与士林群体的盘根错节的交往,为展现其腐化堕落的过程提供了广阔空间和可能,呈现了士人个体在群体影响下不可捉摸的命运走向,还原了士人在八股科举制的引诱下四处奔走的实况和生存困境。匡超人"乡村—城市"的生活轨迹和"乡下人进城"的叙事模式,实现了文本中城乡交流、对立的完整空间叙事模式。

The novel, through the life of Kuang Chao-ren and his father, expresses the fact that the society is declining in the microscopic time dimension, and that the patriarchal kinship in the late feudal society could no longer resist the tide of fame and fortune. Emphasis of Kuang Chao-ren’s birthplace means deep because later on he frequently changes his living space, by which he makes acquaintances with other scholars, but in the process he goes to corruption. In this way, the author depicts the image of scholars influenced by the imperial examination and their predicament and the fact that the fate of individual is influenced by the group. Kuang Chao-ren’s life from village to city is a manifestation of spatial narrative model of urban-rural communication and opposition in the text,which has a profound impact on the creation of modern novels in the later era.