欧洲一位大诗人说过,任何不朽作品的主题均有四层意义:字面的、寓言的、道德的、神秘的。综观文学史上的不朽之作大抵如此。但文之为体,大小殊功,自不能一言蔽之。《羊脂球》的主题明确而单纯,它并不具备上述四层意义,但毕竟谁也不否认它是一篇不朽之作。它自一八八○年发表至今一个多世纪来,博得了广大读者的赞赏,读者对它的兴趣历久不衰。原因何在? 我想,首先是因为这篇作品具有丰富而深刻的思想内涵。在这个篇幅不大的作品 A major European poet has said that the theme of any immortalized work has four meanings: literal, allegory, moral, mysterious. A comprehensive view of immortality in the history of literature probably so. But the text as a body, the size of special power, since can not be a word. The theme of “suet ball” is clear and simple, it does not have the above four meanings, but after all, no one denies that it is an immortal work. It has been praised by readers for more than a century since it was published in 1880, and its readers’ interest in it has been prolonged. The reason? I think, first of all, because of this work has a rich and profound ideological content. In this small piece of work