传奇传统的历史遇合与现代升华——对沈从文湘西小说的一种阐释

An Interpretation of SHEN Cong-wen's West-Hunan Novels

沈从文在非典籍文化层面和典籍文化层面,都与中国古代小说中的传奇传统在精神上有着“血缘”关系,以传奇为依托关注生命的神性在沈从文的湘西小说中表现得相当明显。作家以现代理性反思湘西生命的存在形式,用自己真善美的价值尺度建立起具有神性的人性样本,瞩目“民族精神重建”,完成了传奇传统与湘西世界的历史遇合与现代升华。

The author holds that, in both the canonical and non-canonical aspects, SHEN's West-Hunan novels spiritually fall heir to China's ancient romance, whose unique attention to the divinity of human life, along with the writer's rational perspective toward it, manifests itself in SHEN's works, thus accomplishing a historic integration of ancient tradition and modern life.