《风车》:权力与欲望的病态隐喻

Windmill:An Abnormal Metaphor of Power and Desire

墨白的中篇小说《风车》以大跃进时期豫东乡村的人民公社建造风车为背景,描绘了大跃进时代乡村底层人物的荒谬人生,深入挖掘了那个非常时期中国社会的政治权力结构,突出了以欲望为核心的人性的扭曲与变异,为我们反思中国社会历史进程提供了一个经典性的文学文本。

Mo Bai's novella Windmill makes rural people's communes of East Henan in the period of Great Leap Forward (1958) as background,where the local governments wanted to build a windmill.Through a detailed depiction of the absurdity of natives' life and a thorough investigation of the power manipulation at that time,the novel reveals how human nature is distorted by the desire and can therefore be read as a classic text which offers a better understanding of the history of China.