梦里说人生——解读沈从文小说里的梦描写

Discussing Life by Means of DreamsA Research into Dream Description in Shen Congwen's Fictions

沈从文的小说梦幻色彩浓厚,此特征不仅表现在他经常以"梦"字来形容意象或情境,还以大量梦境的铺写来展现他织梦的热情及独特的美学风貌。这些虚幻迷离而闪烁着奇光异彩的梦幻作品,是作家对中国传统梦文学形式的体悟,以及对现代西方心理科学的汲取,浑融成独属于个人的艺术呈现。梦里说人生,虚幻中却饱含着哲理意蕴和美学思考,沈从文为中国梦文学开拓了一个包容世界文化视野的广阔空间。

Shen Congwen's fictions are filled with the atmosphere of dreams, which is revealed by the fact that he described the image by the Chinese character 'dream', and a great deal of depiction of dreams shows his favor to fantastic dreams and his unique aesthetic point of view. His literary works characterized by illusion coloring show his understanding of Chinese dream literature and his absorption of western modern psychology. He discussed life by means of dream description and the illusions in his fictions contain philosophical meanings and reflect his aesthetic ideas.