中国现代文学的知识分子叙事传统

The Narrative Tradition of Intellectuals in Modern Chinese Literature

从文学题材的角度看,中国现代文学的重要传统之一,就是关于知识分子的叙事。许多现代文学大家给我们留下了众多知识分子的典型形象,而通过对他们生活道路、命运遭际的描写,反映社会历史的变迁和时代的精神文化风貌,也成为作家的自觉追求。从"五四"时期的呐喊者和彷徨者,到20世纪三四十年代向革命者的转变,可以看到知识分子的形象谱系;启蒙、革命、救亡的变奏,构成了知识分子叙事的主题嬗变;个人与社会的冲突成为知识分子叙事的中心冲突。从中反映出时代对文学的巨大影响以及文学与社会生活的互动关系。

From the perspective of literary themes, one of the important traditions of modern Chinese literature is the narrative of intellectuals. Many modern literary masters have provided us with many typical images of intellectuals, and it has also become the conscious pursuit of writers to describe intellectuals’ life paths and destiny and to reflect the social and historical changes as well as the spiritual and cultural features of the era. The image pedigree of intellectuals can be seen from the shouters and wanderers during the May 4th Movement to their conversion into revolutionaries in the 1930 s and 1940 s. The variation of enlightenment, revolution and national salvation has constituted the theme evolution in intellectuals’ narrative while the conflict between individuals and society has become the central conflict of intellectuals’ narrative, which is reflective of the great influence of the era on literature as well as the interaction between literature and social life.