孤独·隐喻·悲悯:白先勇小说的另类生命悲剧书写——以“Danny Boy”和“Tea for Two”为中心

Loneliness,Metaphor and Compassion:An Alternative Tragedy of Life in Bai Xianyong s Novels--Centered on Danny Boy and Tea for Two

白先勇是誉满海内外的当代华语文学的领军人物,生命悲剧书写是他始终不渝的创作取向。“Danny Boy”和“Tea for Two”两部小说关注生活在艾滋病肆虐背景下的美国纽约华人同性恋群体,在挖掘他们面对命运不公的孤独、无奈及自我救赎的同时,也隐含对美国社会现实的批判。小说运用疾病的隐喻、音乐的象征等艺术手法,含蓄地表达自己的情感态度和文化立场,是白先勇人道主义情怀和人文主义精神的升华之作;且作为20世纪七八十年代美国纽约华人世界那段不堪回首历史的文学镜像,颇具认识价值和启示意义。白先勇的悲悯情怀源自他对世界和人生的深刻生命体验及由此形成的生命悲剧意识,源于童年经验、人生经历、文化接受及认同危机等多方面影响。

Bai Xianyong is a leading figure in contemporary Chinese literature,whose life tragedy writing is his undying creative orientation.Danny Boy and Tea for Two novels focus on the Chinese gay community in New York,the United States,living in the background of the AIDS epidemic.While exploring their loneliness,helplessness and self-redemption in the face of unfair fate,they also implicitly criticize the social reality of the United States.The novel uses the metaphor of disease,the symbol of music and other artistic techniques to implicitly express their own emotional attitude and cultural stand,which is the sublimation of Bai Xianyong s humanitarian feelings and humanistic spirit.As a literary mirror image of the ugly history of the Chinese world in New York in the 1970s and 1980s,it is of great cognitive value and enlightenment significance.Bai Xianyong s compassion is derived from his profound life experience of the world and life and the consciousness of life tragedy formed therefrom.It is also influenced by his childhood experience,life experience,cultural acceptance and identity crisis.