不同场域中女性命运的诠释--评《四个四十岁的女人》

Interpretation of Women’s Fate in Different Fields--Comments on Four Women of Forty

小说《四个四十岁的女人》将四个作为时代新进入者身份的女性,放置在充满新旧观念冲突的家庭和社会场域里演绎人生命运。她们最终要么像蔡淑华和魏玲玲一样臣服于固有力量的支配,选择做一位贤妻良母;要么如钱叶芸誓与传统势力决裂,不惜付出身败名裂的代价。作为四个人“圆心儿”的柳青,选择了游离于家庭、婚恋等传统场域之外的美的场域。美的场域里冲突力量之间关系相对松散,鼓励个体自由追求人生价值,柳青最终实现了自己诗意性的人生价值。

The novel Four Women of Forty depicted the life story of four women of the new era who were set in the family and social field full of conflicts between traditional and new ideas.Among them,some submitted to the domination of traditional forces and chose to be a good wife and mother;like Cai Shuhua and Wei Lingling;some,like Qian Yeyun,spared no efforts to break with traditional forces even with the cost of all her reputation.Liu Qing,the“center of the four”,chose the field of beauty other than the traditional fields such as family and society.In the field of beauty,the relationship between conflicted forces was relatively loose,which encouraged individuals to pursue life value freely.Liu Qing finally realized her poetic life.