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Modern Metaphor of Ancient Legends --On SU Tongs Novel Bi Nu

XU Xiang   

  1. (College of humanities, Xian Peihua University, Xian 710125, China)
  • Received:2015-09-27 Online:2016-02-28 Published:2016-03-02

古老传说的现代隐喻 ——论苏童小说《碧奴》

徐翔   

  1. 西安培华学院 人文学院,西安 710125
  • 作者简介:徐翔(1981-),女,河南南阳人,西安培华学院人文学院讲师,文学硕士,研究方向:中国现当代文学。
  • 基金资助:
    陕西省社科基金项目“陕西当代文学中的反现代性书写”(2014I28)

Abstract: SU Tongs novel Bi Nu is one of the global projects of “restatement myth”. The novel uses a new form to rewrite the story of MENG Jiangnvs crying the Great Wall. Through the magnificent imagination and stranger narrative way for a recreation of ancient legend but under the cloak of the “restatement myth”, the work is a metaphor for the modern civilization, which gives the original beautiful myths and legends of the plight a layer of modern civilization fate color. By describing Bi Nus experience of looking for her husband, the novel shows the human indifference, national political power of coercion and the plight of human existence, which is undoubtedly the metaphor of the modernization process of human history.

Key words: Bi Nu, legend, modern metaphor

摘要: 苏童的长篇小说《碧奴》作为全球性的“重述神话”项目之一,以全新的形式书写了孟姜女哭长城的故事。小说通过瑰丽的想象和陌生化的叙事方式对古老传说进行了一次再创造,但在“重述神话”的外衣下,作品潜藏着对现代文明的隐喻,这让原本美丽的神话传说抹上了一层现代文明困境的宿命色彩。小说通过对碧奴寻夫之路的描述,展现了人性的冷漠、国家政治权力的强压和人类总也走不出的生存困境,这无疑是对人类历史现代化进程的隐喻。

关键词: 《碧奴》, 传说, 现代隐喻