汪曾祺:小城的寂寞与温暖

Wang Zengqi: the Loneliness and Warmth of Little Towns

汪曾祺是来自小城的作家,他以故乡高邮为背景的小城作品是其创作的核心部分。这些作品所体现的情感特质是寂寞,从中披示了他作为士大夫文人和现代知识分子双重角色在现实社会面前的悲剧感;但他又远不止于此,乃以童年记忆、个人气质及民族文化传统为基础,从新的时代需要出发,将仁义欢爱作为贯串性主题,着力呼唤并表现善与美,给寂寞的情感基调增添了温暖的色泽。

Wang Zengqi is a writer born and brought up in a little town. Most of his literary works are set in a little town - Gao You, his home town. The typically emotional trait reflected in those writings is loneliness - a sense of tragedy resulting from the double role that the writer has to play both as a scholar - official and as a modern intellectual. In addition, he bases his writings on his remembrance of childhood, personality and national cultural traditions, starting from the needs of the new times, letting the themes of humanity, righteousness and love run through his writings, and exerting himself to wake up and depict the goodness and beauty so as to add a warm color to the solitary loneliness.