“江湖寥阔尔安归？”——《欲望的旗帜》与《桃李》之比较

《欲望的旗帜》与《桃李》两部小说都写大学校园生活，视点都是社会转型语境中的知识分子，并追问他们的存在方式。把两部小说当成一个相关的文本进行细读和比较，可发现从上世纪末到本世纪初，在物质欲望的诱惑下，大学知识分子精神状态坠落的过程：由无所适从，到人的“分裂”，到与“现实”媾和，失去了安妥灵魂的地方。小说的主旨也由此彰显出来，悲观的叙述中蕴涵了修复某种信念的渴望。

＂Where Is the Room to Rest Your Soul in This Boundless Land？＂ --A Comparison between the Banner of Desire and Disciples

On the basis of campus life,both the two novels of The Banner of Desire and Disciples focused on the intellectuals of universities during the transformational period of the society and especially their way of existence.Having a study and comparison on the two novels of similar flavor,you will find the spiritual degeneration process of these intellectuals in face of the temptation of material greed from the end of last century till the beginning of this century.At the very beginning,they were at a loss what to do.Then,they became double-faced.And in the end,they made peace with the reality and lost the room to rest their soul,which helped to push forward the theme of the novel.Though narrated in a pessimistic way,the story contained a desire to restore a certain kind of belief.