"五四"时期现代长篇小说论

中国“五四”时期现代长篇小说是在“五四”“人的文学”思潮的影响下才真正实现了从传统向现代的初步转型。人的文学的凸现使“五四”现代长篇小说家们开始在广阔的艺术视野中探寻世界 ,表现人生 ,作品所表现的面对命运与既有秩序的抗争态度 ,与“五四”文学“人的自觉”的光芒相映成辉。有个性的复杂人物的描写 ,双重视角的透视特别是对人的自身弱点所酿成的悲剧的批判 ,人的多重意识世界的揭示以及在双重文化的烛照中透视国民的灵魂 ,在追求叙述手法的多样化和强化叙述的主观色彩的同时走向文体的自觉等艺术特质 ,使它和旧文学彻底区别开来 ,并真正迈开了中国现代长篇小说现代化的步伐

On Modern Novels of the May 4th Period

Though the modern novels of the May 4th Period were closely related with the novels of the late Qing Dynasty, they fulfilled their preliminary transformation from traditional to modern with the influence of the idea of "human literature". The foregrounding of human literature enabled the modern novels of the May Fourth Period to probe into the world and depict human life with a wide artistic point of view. The struggle in the face of fate and established order depicted in these novels corresponds with the "human awareness" which is characteristic of the May Fourth Literature. The portrayal of complex characters with individuation, the analysis of dual personality, especially the criticism of the tragedy caused by innate defects of people, the stylistic awareness as a result of the effort to achieve the narrative diversity and the deepening of narrative subjectivity, all these singled them out from the old literature and this marks the beginning of modern Chinese novels.