对新文学传统的回应与超越——论林徽因的小说

Response to and Transcendence of the New Literary Tradition——On Lin Huiyin’s Novels

林徽因的小说几乎篇篇都有可圈点之处。《文珍》中出走的丫鬟、《绣绣》中新时代的旧式弃妇、《钟绿》中希腊乡村少女,这些形象与五四新文学传统中的女性形象类型似是而非;《吉公》对清末西学东渐背景下知识分子命运的表现以及科学、科技之辨,则是五四新文学较少触及的命题;而她的第一篇小说《窘》不仅体现了娴熟的心理描写技巧,还表现出对个人生活、情感的不加掩饰的坦诚,这又是五四新文学最基本的底色。这一切都足以说明林徽因小说的独树一帜,以及对五四新文学传统的回应和超越。

Almost all of Lin Huiyin’s novels are commendable.The runaway servant girl in Wen Shen,the old abandoned woman in the New Era in Xiu Xiu,and the Greek village girl in Zhong Lyu are all seemingly similar to the types of female images in the May 4new literary tradition.The expression of the fate of intellectuals and the debate on science and technology under the background of the spread of Western learning to the East in the late Qing Dynasty in Ji Gong are propositions rarely touched by the new literature of the May 4Movement.However,her first novel Embarrassment not only embodies the skillful psychological description skills,but also shows the candid personal life and emotion,which is the most basic feature of the May 4new literature.All these are enough to illustrate the uniqueness of Lin Huiyin’s novels,as well as the response to and transcendence of the new literary tradition of the May 4Movement.