从《柏子》到《边城》 --沈从文文化身份的变化及情爱题材小说创作

沈从文创造了一个富于“人性美”的湘西世界,但这个“人性美”的世界建构不是一蹴而就的,而是经过一个不断丰富和不断完善的过程,其中充满了矛盾和困惑。前期以《柏子》为代表的一系列作品,是压抑苦闷、焦虑时期的产物,关注的是湘西人强悍、直露表达性爱的方式,表现了人性“真”的一面。后期《边城》是他的思想成熟之作,是作者确立了文化人的身份和认同了士大夫价值体系之后,关注到湘西人含蓄内敛的“善”所蕴涵的美,达到了“人性美”的极致。沈从文文化身份的变化直接影响了他的创作,并导致了作品的审美价值由直露向含蓄变化。

From Bai Zi to Frontier Town--On the Relationship between Shen Congwen Culture Status and his Love Novel Writing

Shen Congwen creates the Xiangxi World with "perfect human nature",which has come into being after a complicated and long time of work. In his early works, his focus is on Xiangxi people's boldness and power,and direct expression of the sexual love. Frontier Town , a ripe novel of the auther's later stage in which his culture status was confirmed and scholar-officals' value was recognized,focuses its attention to Xiangxi people's inner "kindness", which is the perfect beauty of human nature .The change of Shen Congwen's culture status influences directly his writing,The auther's value of aesthetics changes from frankness to implication.