家族小说《采桑子》中人物命运的解读

The Interpretation of the Characters'Fates in the Family Novel Picking Mulberries

《采桑子》是叶广芩"家族小说"之一,以她自己家族中的人、事、物为原型,描绘了清朝贵族的生活场景,展示了近百年来在时代变革中贵族没落的沧桑史。小说采用了空间化的叙事方式,有意忽略历史事件,从人性的角度关注人物本身。在叙事时采用内视角和全视角。人物分为对传统贵族文化的坚守者及背叛者两类,洞察了在部分人物身上发生的坚守与背叛之间的转换。作品中不同人物在对贵族文化的态度中所展现出的百态人性以及最终的命运走向,引发了人们对人物命运背后的思考。

Picking Mulberries is one of Ye Guangqin’s"family novels", based on her own family. Picking Mulberries shows the real-life situations of the aristocrats in the Qing Dynasty and the decline of the nobility in the past hundred years. In her creation, the author adopts a spatial narrative style,deliberately neglects historical events, and pays attention to the characters themselves from the perspective of human nature. In the narrative the omniscient perspective is alternated with an internal one.In this paper, the characters are divided into two categories: the adherents and betrayers of the traditional aristocratic culture,having insight into some people who made the switch from adherence to betrayal. The different attitudes of different characters towards aristocratic culture reveal the variety in human nature and the ultimate fate of different characters, which encourages reflection upon the fates behind the characters.