巴金抗战小说中的“小人小事”

“Ordinary People and Small Things”:A Study on Ba Jin’s Novels in Wartime China

巴金的抗战小说以关怀“小人小事”为重要特征。在辗转于重庆、桂林、贵阳等战时后方城市期间,巴金深切体验了日军对平民的无差别轰炸,并以“火”为核心意象,寄托了对战争暴力与国族命运的思索。结合抗战时期巴金在后方城市的生活体验与写作实践,分析巴金在这一时期关注“小人小事”的伦理内涵,从书信体小说、复杂的写作者姿态等层面阐发“小人小事”在沟通战争现实与小说叙事方面的意义,探讨作为安那其主义者的巴金与作为作家的巴金对于战争伦理的思考。

Ba Jin’s Novels during the Anti-Japanese War Period are characterized by caring for “ordinary people and small things”. While in Chongqing, Guilin, Guiyang and other rear cities, Ba Jin deeply experienced the indiscriminate bombing of civilians by the Japanese army, and placed his insights into war violence and national destiny with“fire”as the core literary image.Combined with his life experience and literary practice on the home front, this essay analyzes Ba Jin’s attention to the ethical connotation of the commoners and daily life in this period, and expounds the significance of“ordinary people and small things”in communicating the reality of war and literary narration from the epistolary novels and the complex attitudes of the writer. It also discusses Ba Jin’s thoughts on ethics of war as an anarchist as well as a writer.