试论《围城》的冷幽默

在《围城》中,钱先生运用了大量精辟的比喻,各种机智的反语、双关、谐音、对仗、警句,以及古今中外的典型逸闻,来增强文本的幽默意味。这种幽默非同一般,我们称其为“冷幽默”。其基本特征是:冷中有热,热中有冷,悲剧性与喜剧性难分难解,嬉笑怒骂中又带着无可奈何的惋惜之情,其中包含着复杂的审美效应。

On Cold Humor in Novel Fortress Besieged

The novel Fortress Besieged is a critical realism work of neo-literature after the May 4th Movement period.This humanism novel becomes famous around the world as a new novel The Scholars(Ru Lin Wai Shi) in the 20th century.Because it shows us the morbid and deformed lives of the upper-class Chinese intellectual in old time;it gains remarkable achievements in the art.Mr.Qian Zhongshu applies a lot of penetrating metaphors,and all kinds of quick-witted ironies, puns,homophone,antithesis,aphorisms,and typical anecdotes in ancient or modern,in Chinese or foreign language,to strengthen its humorous meanings.This kind of humor is different from other normal ones,so we call it as "cold humor". Its basic characteristics are cold and hot coexist,and it is hard to differentiate its tragedy and comedy characteristics;this can feel sympathize for having no way out in laughing merrily or cursing angrily.There are complicated aesthetic effects inside.