文化与艺术之间的镜像互证与内在超越——论林语堂的小说创作

林语堂一直自觉地向西方社会推介中国固有的传统文化和正在洪波涌起的新文化，即使当他从事小说创作时，也难以忘怀传播文化的使命，这就使他的小说在向艺术高峰攀升的时候，也闪耀着中国文化的光芒，从而使文化推介和艺术创作具有了镜像互证的特征，即中国传统文化以及传统文化思想影响下形成的群体性民族精神气质与个体性文化人格，在林语堂小说中得以完美呈现；同时，因为林语堂的小说有着深湛内在的文化支撑，从而获得了超越时空的共时性特质。对文学不朽意义的自觉追求，使林语堂的小说获得了某种永恒的意义，实现了其内在超越。

Image Inter- Attestation between Culture and Arts, and Interior Transcendence: On Lin Yutang' s fictions

Lin Yutang has devoted himself to the introduction to the Western world of indigenous traditional Chinese culture and the newly - arising culture, and he has not failed cherish this mission in heart even in his fiction. As a result, while his literary achievements were well - nigh at their peak, his fiction was still sending out rays of light of Chinese culture, so that an inter- attestation was created between his culture recommending and his fiction. Chinese culture, nationality mettle and personality were presented perfectly in his fiction. At the same time, his fiction, too, attained an eternal quality with its inherent cultural support. Thus Lin- Yutang＇s fiction has won interior transcendence.