瘟疫叙事艺术比较分析——以《花冠病毒》和《鼠疫》为例

A Comparative Analysis of the Narrative Art of Plague--Taking Corolla Virus and The Plague as Examples

瘟疫是文学的重要表现对象,也是中外作家频繁书写的题材之一。中国当代女作家毕淑敏的《花冠病毒》和法国现代存在主义文学家加缪的代表作《鼠疫》,都以瘟疫爆发为故事背景,在反思的基础上呈现出人性的不同面相。从叙述者、叙述聚焦、叙述时间和叙述场景的角度出发,笔者对两部作品进行瘟疫叙事艺术的比较分析,探究此类作品在对瘟疫充满预见性的同时,还蕴含着独特且具人文情怀的审美价值和突破小我、奉献大我的精神力量。

The plague is an important object of literature and one of the most written themes by Chinese and foreign writers.Under the similar background of plague outbreak,both Bi Shumin's Corolla Virus and Camus's The Plague depict different aspects of human nature on the basis of reflection.From the perspectives of narrator,narrative focus,narrative time,and narrative scene,this article compares and analyzes the plague narrative art of the two works to explore why such works can be full of foresight into the plague while retaining humanistic aesthetic values and the spiritual power to subject individual interest to that of the greater cause.