如闻其声 如临其境——《格列佛游记》的艺术特色

As hearing the sound and being in the scene:the artistic features of Gulliver’s Travels

《格列佛游记》是18世纪英国著名文学家乔纳森·斯威夫特的一部优秀长篇讽刺寓言小说,具有较高的美学价值、思想性和艺术性。小说描写了主人公里梅尔·格列佛周游小人国、大人国、飞岛国和慧骃国的离奇旅行和种种遭遇,具有很强的写实性和现实感,给读者带来如闻其声、如临其境之感,小说想象丰富、构思奇特、讽刺辛辣,深刻反映了18世纪前半期英国社会的各种矛盾,无情地嘲讽和批判了当时英国的内政和外交政策,为更加准确地研究英国文学史和欧洲社会变革提供了一定的参考。

Gulliver's Travels is an excellent satirical fable novel by Jonathan Swift,a famous British writer in the 18th century,which has high level of aesthetic value,ideology and artistry.The novel describes Riemel Gulliver’s bizarre travels and various encounters in the Lilliput,Brobding-nag,the flying island country and the Hui country.It has a strong sense of realism and realism,which brings readers a sense of being heard and immersed in the scene.The novel has the characteristics of rich imagina-tion,strange conception and irony.The theme of the novel is profound,which reflects various contradictions in British society in the first half of the 18th century,mercilessly ridicules and criticizes Britain's domestic and foreign policies at that time,and provides a certain reference for more accurately studying the history of English literature and social changes in Europe.