从“绿房子”的命运看拉美社会的现代转型:对《绿房子》的文学社会学解读

Modern Transformation of Latin American Society from the Fate of“Green House”:A Literary Sociological Interpretation of The Green House

秘鲁作家巴尔加斯·略萨在小说《绿房子》(LaCasa Verde,1966)中虚构的妓院“绿房子”的形象具有强烈的象征意味。以文学社会学和比较文学的方法进行解读,“绿房子”的出现可以被视为拉丁美洲城市从前现代进入现代的标志。在“绿房子”的命运起伏中既可以看到拉丁美洲社会现代化进程的诸多特征:新殖民主义的入侵、教会力量与国家力量的斗争等;也可以看出现代化进程的普适性特征:欲望的解放、工商业资产阶级的强势崛起等。作为拉丁美洲文学“爆炸”的经典作品,《绿房子》展现了拉丁美洲社会向现代转型的历史的多个侧面。

In The Green House(La Casa Verde,1966),a novel by the Peruvian writer Vargas Llosa,the brothel“Green House”has a significant symbolic meaning.Interpreted with the approaches of Sociology of Literature and Comparative Literature,the emergence of the green house can be regarded as a sign of Latin American cities entering the modern era from pre-modern times.In the ups and downs of the green house,we can see many characteristics of the social modernization in Latin America:the invasion of neocolonialism,the struggle between church and state,etc.;as well as some universal characteristics of the modernization process:the liberation of the desire,the rise of the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie,etc.As a classic work of the“boom”of Latin American literature,“The Green House”shows multiple aspects of the history of Latin American society's modernization.