挽歌情怀和挽歌形式——论沈从文湘西小说的抒情艺术

Elegiac Feeling and Elegiac Form——On Xiangxi novels' Lyric Art

同样是一种散文化(或诗化)小说模式,沈从文的城市小说和湘西小说却表现出完全不同的内涵和意味,这与湘西小说“爱与哀戚’的抒情内容和“外冷内热”的抒情形式直接相关。正是这种我称之为挽歌情怀和挽歌形式的结合造就了湘西小说的独特美感和内在诗意。

As a representative lyric novelist in the history of modern Chinese literature, there are complete differences in Shen Congwens' urban novels and Xiangxi novels, the latter expresses a love and sad feeling through a nelegiac form, and it forms the special radiance and poetry of Xiangxi novels.