狡猾的车夫——论《恨海》中一位二十世纪初华北的“当代英雄”  

The Cunning Coachman——On a"Contemporary Hero"in Hate the Sea in North China in the Early 20th Century

作　　者：李昌懋 Li Changmao

机构地区：[1]复旦大学中国语言文学系

出　　处：《理论界》2021年第4期70-75,共6页Theory Horizon

摘　　要：在吴趼人小说《恨海》中,一位作为明显的负面人物形象登场的车夫,先是表达了作为“大清朝”国民的初步的民族国家意识,又表现了以精于算计和对财富的追求为特征的接近“理性经济人”的特质。吴趼人越是努力地控制这个人物,想把他写成一个小丑,这个人物在《恨海》中的独特性就越是凸显,吴趼人写作的目的和他写作的结果的矛盾也就暴露得越充分;在写实主义写作手法之下,他所推崇的人物的惨状与这位车夫的从容之间的对比,正足以体现出,这位车夫才算是表明“时代精神”的“当代英雄”,他的形象集中表现了某种典型的现代性。In Wu Jianren’s novel Hate the Sea, a coachman, as an obvious negative character, first expresses his initial national consciousness as a citizen of the "Great Qing Dynasty", and then shows the characteristics of being close to "rational economic man" characterized by skillful calculation and pursuit of wealth. The harder Wu Jianren tries to control the character, and wants to write him as a clown, the more prominent the uniqueness the character is in Hate the Sea, and the more fully the contradiction between the purpose of Wu Jianren’s writing and the result of his writing is exposed. Under the writing technique of realism, the contrast between the tragedy of the characters he admires and the calmness of the coachman is just enough to show that the coachman is a "contemporary hero" who embodies the "pirit of the times", and his image focuses on a certain typical modernity.

关 键 词：恨海 吴趼人 义和团运动 现代性人物形象 

分 类 号：I206[文学—中国文学]