《都柏林人》和《呐喊》、《彷徨》比较研究

A Comparative Study of James Joyce’s Dubliners and Lu Xun’s Call to Arms and Wandering

乔伊斯的<都柏林人>与鲁迅的<呐喊>和<彷徨>具有相同的思想主题:乔伊斯揭露都柏林人的"精神瘫痪",而鲁迅抨击中国"国民的劣根性".乔伊斯与鲁迅笔下的主人公也具共同点:他们都是社会重压下精神扭曲的人物.本文比较研究乔伊斯和鲁迅的短篇小说,试图探讨二者作品相同内涵的原因所在.

The present paper compares short stories written by James Joyce and Lu Xun from three perspectives: theme, characterization, and the novelist's experience and approach to life. The study reveals that there is striking correspondence between Joyce's Dubliners and Lu Xun's short-story collections Call to Arms and Wandering, both in theme and in characterization. Joyce mocked the “moral paralysis' from which Dublin suffered while Lu Xun ridiculed the “moral inferiority' ingrained in Chinese people. Both Joyce and Lu Xun depicted a gallery of pathetic characters, all victims of a suffocating society. It is found that the element of realism has provided a possible focus of comparison between the two otherwise incompatible masters in world literary history.