未完成的启蒙——丁玲《我在霞村的时候》新解

Unfinished Enlightenment——New Interpretation of When I Was in the Ixia Village by Ding Ling

从启蒙现代性的视角来看,《我在霞村的时候》延续了"五四"运动的启蒙主义传统,提出了个人自由、婚姻自主的重大命题。但是这一主题被小说表面的"革命"叙事所遮蔽:"革命"中断了"启蒙"。一般来说,"革命"并不一定总是与"启蒙"相冲突,但在这篇小说中,作者显然认为,"革命"是与"启蒙"相冲突的。这就构成了小说在结构和叙事上的内在张力,使得它的意蕴扩张,具有了超越"革命"的不一般的意义。

From the angle of enlightenment modernity, Ding ling's short story When I Was in the Xia Village continued the enlightenment tradition of the May 4th Movement, presenting a very important motif of an individual's freedom on choosing one's marriage. But the surface 'revolution' narrative concealed this motif in this story: 'revolution' interrupted 'enlightenment'. Generally speaking, 'revolution' was not always contradicted with 'enlightenment'. But in this story, the author obviously agreed that 'revolution' did contradict with 'enlightenment'. This resulted in its intrinsic paradox in structure and narrative, making it embrace more meaning than 'revolution' only. 