刑罚表演的背后——论余华的《一九八六年》

Behind the Executions——Analysis of The Year 1986 by YuHua

余华的中短篇小说借刑罚的叙述展示了对人性、权力、历史等的思考 ,他借历史警示当下生存 ,以暴力和混乱颠覆文明 ,体现了八十、九十年代中国文学精神的潜在演进 ,即从文革记忆、追溯历史到形而上学问题的关注。他预言了现代人的生存空虚 ,然而又有深情的期待 。

Through the description of executions, YuHua's novelette, The Year 1986 , presents the author's thoughts on human nature,power and history.YuHua associat es history with the present existence and subverts civilization with violence a nd disorder.This shows the latent evolution of literary spirit in the 1980's and the 1990’s,that is,from recording the cultural revolution and history to pond ering over metaphysical problems,He predicts the existence void of modern people ,but with great expectation which results from eternal pursuit of spiritual p aradise.