20世纪中国小说中的人物形象

学界一般认为，现代文学最重要的人物形象是知识分子和农民，两者之间的关系形成“改造国民性”的文学主题。但是在晚清和当代小说中，官员形象是第三个重要的人物系列。知识分子与农民及官员形象之间，在小说中常常呈现某种复杂的三角关系。如果知识分子与农民的关系，可以概括为“启蒙救亡”，那么知识分子与官员形象之间的“互相改造”过程，以及农民与官场“矛盾依存”关系的演变，也都需要分别梳理。

Scholars generally believe that the most important characters in modern Chinese literature are intellectuals and peasants, and their relationship is central to the literary theme of "reforming national character". However, in the late Qing Dynasty and contemporary fictions, officials become the third important image of characters. The complicated triangular relationship between intellectuals, peasants and officials in fictions is since formed. If the relationship between intellectuals and peasants can be summarized as "enlightenment and "national salvation", the process of “mutual transformation” between intellectuals and officials in twentieth-century Chinese fictions and the historical evolution of the “contradictory and interdependent” relationship between peasants and officialdom also need to be described separately on their own terms.