关于张爱玲,常常见到一种批评:她的作品悲观,没有展现理想,不曾塑造英雄。有论家曾引用《金锁记》里的一句话,来概括她的小说:“一级一级,走进没有光的所在。”这种意见,假如不看作价值判断,单就陈述事实而言,本身并不错。但张爱玲为什么这样,这不是简单的“悲观”或“乐观”所能解释的,背后还有一个东西,就是今天讲的题目——《张爱玲的残酷之美》。 Of Eileen Chang, often see a criticism: her work pessimistic, did not show the ideal, did not shape the hero. Some critics have quoted one sentence from “Golden Lock” to summarize her novels: “One level and one level, there is no light.” This kind of opinion, if not regarded as value judgments, state facts In itself, it is not bad. But why is Eileen Chang? This is not something that can be explained by simple “pessimism” or “optimism.” There is one thing behind that. Today is the topic of “the cruel beauty of Eileen Chang.”