婚外情的文学诠释——重读廖辉英的《窗口的女人》

台湾女作家廖辉英在上个世纪八十年代发表的长篇小说《窗口的女人》所描述的婚外情以及在婚外情中的男性和女性所展现的微妙而复杂的心态相当真实可信,即使是在二十年后,这部小说依然有它的现实意义。它成功地为中国当代文学较早地提供了一个完整的婚外恋的个案,它让我们思索在社会的转型时期,旧的传统道德将尽未尽、新的道德体系将立未立之时,作为个体的人如何约束自己,成为一个对社会、对家庭、对爱情负责任的人。

Literatural Explanation of Extramarital Affairs

The novel Woman Beside the Window is written by Taiwan female writer Liao Huiying in 1980s. In the book, the extramarital affairs and the complex but delicate female and male psychological attitude are believable. Even after 20 years, it still has practical significance. It provides a successful extramarital affairs case for Chinese early contemporary literature and makes us to think, as a person, how to limit ourselves and to become people who assumes responsibility to society, to family, and to love in the changing period of society when old traditional morality hasn't been over and new morality system hasn't been built.