论《红高粱家族》与《暮光之城》的共性文化主题

On the Common Cultural Themes of Red SorghumFamily and Twilight

世界是个多姿多彩的组合体,不同肤色、不同种族、不同信仰的人类是它的一个重要部分。在呈现各自差异性的同时,人类在本质上也有着相同或类似的行为和文化理念。中国作家莫言的《红高粱家族》和美国女作家斯蒂芬妮·梅尔的《暮光之城》两部畅销宏篇巨著通过小说名字的文化象征意义、魔幻现实主义风格的体现、自我价值的张扬、家庭对性格的影响、人性的复杂性和永恒的爱情等共性文化主题,用来源于生活又高于生活的生动描写阐释了这一观点。

The world is a colorful combination,and human beings of different skin colors,different races,and different beliefs are an important part of it.While presenting their own differences,human beings inherently have the same or similar behaviors and cultural ideas.The two best-selling masterpieces of The Red Sorghum Family by Chinese writer Mo Yan and Twilightby American female writer Stephanie Meier illustrate this view through the cultural symbolism of the novel's name,the embodiment of the magic realism style,the assertion of self-worth,the influence of family on personality,the complexity of human nature and the eternal theme of love with vivid descriptions derived from life and higher than life.