论王安忆《向西,向西,向南》的生命哲学与自我救赎

On the Philosophy of Life and Self-redemption in Wang Anyi’s To the West,to the West and to the South

王安忆的小说《向西,向西,向南》通过讲述人物各自的人生遭际以及相互扶持、寻觅新的生活方式的故事,展现着逐出与纳入中的生命平衡,文明与市井中的精神救赎,异质文化中的精神漂泊与艰难的自我重建等话题。小说延续了作者对女性的人生遭际及对中西方文化的思考,追问着身在何处、走向何方的恒久难题,体现出将生存感悟、哲学认知与文化观照相融合的叙述诉求,并渗透着作者一贯的世俗生活情趣。

Wang Anyi’s novel To the West,to the West and to the South,by telling the story of the characters’own life suffering and supporting each other to find a new way of life,showing the life balance between expulsion and inclusion,the spiritual self-help in civilization and the city,the spiritual wandering in the heterogeneous culture and the difficult self-reconstruction and other topics.The novel continues the author’s thinking about women’s life experiences and Chinese and Western cultures,asks the eternal problem of where they are and where they are going,reflects the narrative appeal of the integration of survival perception,philosophical cognition and cultural view photography,and permeates the author’s consistent interest in secular life.