리루이의 ‘혁명’ 제재 소설 속의 전통 도덕관념 구현 양상 연구

Abstract

This article is to analyze the 4 novels of Li Rui(1950~)-<Silver City>, <Windless Tree>, <The Story of Silver City>, and <The Eighth Day of Zhang Mading>, and examine how the narratives of the subjects of 'revolution' in the novels and the traditional morals of loyalty, filial piety, chastity, and righteousness which are contained in them are accepted and embodied. Li Rui took as the subjects Boxer Rebellion in <The Eighth Day of Zhang Mading>, Chinese Revolution in <The Story of Silver City>, Cultural Revolution in <Windless Tree>, and Socialist Revolution in <Silver City> respectively, and turned them into the novels. He just concentrated on narrating the personal fates of the grass roots who were dragged into the turmoils of those 'revolution' histories and suffered and sacrificed. Further he gave his attention to highlight the torments as humans of the characters in the works and the mechanism of violence by which they were forced to be sacrificed. Meanwhile, the traditional moral senses of loyalty, filial piety, chastity and righteousness are embodied subtly. The characters-Li Naizhi in <Silver City>, Zhao Weiguo in <Windless Tree>, Ouyang Langyun, Liu Lanting, and Liu Zhenwu in <The Story of the Silver City>, Zhang Tianci in <The Eighth Day of Zhang Mading>- get in the conflicts and the dilemmas facing conscience, agonies, and fates as humans, under the causes of nation, history, or revolution. At those moments, the influences in-depth of the traditional moral senses determined their choices and fates. Li Rui showed that the traditions that were condemned and denied from the beginning of the modern age have cast deep traces on the minds and hearts of Chinese people and played as the important moral yardsticks on the crises of them.