徐訏《鬼恋》中志怪传奇叙事的现代性改造

Modern Transformation of Legendary Narrative of Apparition in Ghost Love by Xu Xu

1937年,徐訏凭借其创作的《鬼恋》在文坛一举成名。此文采用“人鬼恋”的叙事模式,延续了古代志怪传奇的传统,充满了浪漫与感伤的情调。同时,徐訏身为一个深受西方哲学、心理学影响的“现代人”,他又能超越传统志怪传奇的限制,对传奇性进行现代化的再造,在《鬼恋》中形成了“人-鬼-人”圆圈式的叙述结构,“从人到鬼”到“从鬼到人”表达了徐訏“非理性”的理想失落的轨迹。在其整体叙述中,徐訏还融入了他对于现代性的反思以及对生命、自由、革命等问题的深入思考,给予了传统“言神志怪”以新的意义。

In 1937,Xu Xu became famous in the literary world with his Ghost Love.This novel adopts the narrative mode of“human and ghost love,”preserving the tradition of ancient legends of the spirit,reeking with romance and sentimentalism.At the same time,as a“modern man”deeply influenced by Western philosophy and psychology,Xu Xu can transcend the limitations of traditional legends of the spirit,modernize and recreate the legendariness,and makes a“human⁃ghost⁃human”circle narrative structure in Ghost Love.This trajectory of the ideal lost“from human to ghost”and then“from ghost to human”also incorporates his reflections on modernity and in⁃depth thinking on issues such as life,freedom,and revolution,giving new meaning to the traditional“apparition legendry.”