疫情下的生与死——迟子建小说《白雪乌鸦》的隐喻探究

Life and Death in an Epidemic Situation:Inquiry into the Metaphor in Chi Zijian’s Novel White Snow Crow

隐喻作为一种修辞成为众多作家构建文学世界的手段,文学中隐喻思维的运用不仅能够造成陌生化效果吸引读者,而且也会因隐喻思维所具有的丰富性与多义性深化文本内涵。在迟子建的小说《白雪乌鸦》中,作者将隐喻的意义指向与作为人类永恒思索的生死命题相关联,并将这一关联置于百余年前哈尔滨鼠疫肆虐的语境之下展开对生与死的本质探寻,进而揭示出生命的意义与价值。作者对于隐喻的运用及关于生死命题的深刻思索使小说彰显出独特的文学内涵与审美意蕴。

As a kind of rhetoric,metaphor has become a means for many writers to construct the literary world.The use of metaphorical thinking in literature can not only attract strangers,but also deepen the connotation of text due to the richness and polysemy of metaphorical thinking.In Chi Zijian’s novel White Snow Crow,the author links the meaning of metaphor to the proposition of life and death as the eternal thinking of human beings,and puts this connection in the context of the plague of the Harbin plague more than 100 years ago The essence of life and death is explored to reveal the meaning and value of life.The author’s use of metaphors and deep thinking about the proposition of life and death make the novel show unique literary and aesthetic connotations.