于黑暗世界透出一抹亮色——从鲁迅的小说《明天》到李时建的戏剧《小夜曲》

Shining a light on the dark world——From Lu Xun’s novel Tomorrow to Li Shijian’s Drama Serenade

李时建以《明天》为蓝本的剧作《小夜曲》鲜为人知,是被学界长期忽视了的鲁迅小说改编本。作为“黑暗中的独行者”,鲁迅创作《明天》意在暴露封建社会的黑暗和吃人本质。“喜剧圣手”李时建在忠实于原著的基础上,借助保留人物些许人性,设置单四嫂子与宝儿相见的白日梦,增添舞台喜剧效果等艺术手法,为原本的黑暗世界涂抹了一丝亮色。这样的“柔化”处理不同程度地削弱了原著对现实社会的批判力度,因而作品的意蕴也不及原著深邃。

Li Shijian’s play Serenade based on Tomorrow is little known.It is an adaptation of Lu Xun’s novels which has been neglected by the academia for a long time.As the“The Lone Walker in the Dark”,Lu Xun created Tomorrow to expose the darkness and cannibalism of feudal society.“Comedy Master”Li Shijian is faithful to the foundation of original work,by preserving some of the character’s humanity.He sets the scene that Shan Si sister-in-law and Boa meet in the dream,adding stage comedy effect,etc.Thus,Li Shijian adds a little color to the dark world.Such“softening”treatment weakened the original work’s criticism of the real society to some extent.Thus,the meaning of the work is not as profound as the original work.