赛珍珠对中国小说的诠释在《大地》中的反映

赛珍珠的文学创作深受中国小说影响。赛珍珠在《中国早期小说源流》、《东方、西方及其小说》和诺贝尔领奖词《中国小说》中对中国小说进行了详细分析,她创作的小说《大地》一书具体体现了作家对中国小说的诠释和理解。《大地》具有很多中国小说的特点:对中国农民生活全景式的描写、情节众多而无高潮、兼具浪漫与现实主义,无单一视角,通过行动和语言塑造生动人物形象,写作既娱乐大众又对中国传统文化进行温和的批判等。这些特征正显示了赛珍珠对中国小说的继承和发展。

Pearl S.Buck’s Understanding of Chinese Novel in The Good Earth

P.S.Buck’s novel writing is deeply influenced by Chinese novels.P.S.Buck analyzed Chinese novels in Sources of the Early Chinese Novel,East and West and theNovel and her Nobel lecture entitled The Chinese Novel respectively,and The Good Earth is an actual practice of her understanding of Chinese novels.The main characteristics of The Good Earth are just like those of the Chinese novel:a panoramic view of Chinese farmer’s life;lots of episodes but no crisis;both romantic and realistic;no strict point of view;vivid character portrayal through action and conversation;purpose of both amusing readers and mildly criticizing the backwardness of traditional Chinese culture.These characteristics show clearly the inheritance and development P.S.Buck got from the Chinese novel.