颠覆中的承传——重探王文兴《家变》中的父子冲突

A Reexamination of the Father-Son Conflict in Wang Wenxing’s Family Catastrophe

《家变》借一场父子冲突来凸显20世纪60年代台湾在社会转型下的人伦异化,以“家变”折射出“世变”。王文兴颠覆了传统“子出走”的结局,在《家变》中展演出现代性的“父出走”的新模式。但父亲的出走并非代表父权的退场,看似被颠覆的父权实际上由子辈重新承传。而子辈对父权的解构与反叛仍不彻底,这也折射出以范晔为代表的现代知识青年在传统意识与现代意识之间的摇摆和挣扎。

In Family Catastrophe,the distortion of human nature in the social transformation in the 1960s Taiwan is reflected by the father-son conflict.Wang Wenxing,the writer,overturns the traditional ending of“the departure of the son”and creates a new modern form of“the departure of the father”.However,the departure of the father does not mean the disappearance of the supremacy of the father and the seemingly subverted supremacy of the father is actually re-inherited by the son.The son’s rebellion against supremacy of the father is still insufficient,which also shows the swing of the modern intellectual youth represented by Fan Ye between traditional ideas and modern ideas.