论路遥小说的人物命名及其意义

On the Character Naming and Its Significance in Lu Yao’s Novels

路遥小说深刻反映了20世纪七八十年代我国城乡社会发生的历史性变迁,他利用汉语言文字的特点,借助象征、比喻等修辞手法,并汲取诗文成语等传统文化资源,以及摘选自然景物与职业技艺等多种方式,完成了对其小说280余位人物的命名。这些丰富的姓名,凝聚着路遥的审美情趣、价值判断和道德审视,具有塑造人物形象、推动情节发展、阐发小说题旨等重要功能,是认识和理解路遥小说的重要向导,彰显出他对中国农村和农民命运的深切关心与哲理思考,也体现出现代文明对传统文化的吸收和改造,烘托出路遥真挚深沉的家国情怀。以文学史发展的历时性和共时性观之,路遥小说人物命名,既实现了对中国小说人物命名传统的自觉继承与当代转化,又构筑起人物命名的地方路径和美学规范,更加促进了新时期现实主义文学的发展,启示了新时代文学的创作。

Lu Yao’s novels deeply reflect the historical changes that occurred in urban and rural society in China in the 1970s and 1980s.He utilized the characteristics of Chinese language,used rhetorical devices such as symbols and metaphors,and drew on traditional cultural resources such as poetry and idioms,as well as selected natural scenery and professional skills,to name more than 280 characters in his novels.These rich names embody Lu Yao’s aesthetic taste,value judgments,and moral examination,and have important functions such as shaping character images,promoting plot development,and elucidating the theme of the novel.They are the guide and path to grasping and understanding Lu Yao’s novels.At the same time,it not only demonstrates his deep concern and philosophical thinking about the fate of Chinese rural areas and farmers,but also reflects the absorption and transformation of traditional culture by modern civilization,and highlights his sincere and profound patriotism towards the future.From the perspective of the diachronic and synchronic development of literary history,the naming of characters in Lu Yao’s novels not only realizes the conscious inheritance and contemporary transformation of the traditional naming of characters in Chinese novels,but also constructs local paths and aesthetic norms for character naming,which further promotes the development of realism literature in the new era and inspires the creation of literature in the new era.