The paper examines themes and images in the novel by Chinese writer Liu Zhenyun (b. 1958) “Strange Bedfellows” (2017), which on the one hand is an attempt to comprehend the interpersonal relationships and human existence in the era of technical progress, and, on the other, follows the tradition of spiritual quests in Chinese and world literature. The themes and images of the novel highlight a number of problems of modern Chinese society related to the cultural and ethnopsychological features of the Chinese nation. The fundamental theme of Liu Zhenyun’s new novel is the national character of the Chinese.
本文考察中国作家刘震云(1958年生)《吃瓜时代的儿女们》(2017年)的小说中的主题和意象,一方面是作者试图理解技术进步时代的人际关系和人类生存,另一方面是遵循中国和世界文学的精神追求传统。小说的主题和意象突出了现代中国社会与中华民族的文化和民族心理特征有关的许多问题。刘振云的新小说的基本主题是中国人的民族性格。