法国十九世纪现实主义作家梅里美的中篇小说《马特奥·法尔戈纳》讲述了发生在一百八十多年前的一个“荣誉谋杀”事件。通过对小说故事的剖析,可见十九世纪初期欧洲的知识分子和读者对发生在欧洲文化背景下的这类“荣誉谋杀”的态度,从中也可窥见作者写作这一故事的深层动机:希望引入一种粗野、质朴、坚毅、勇猛的异质文明来激活优雅精致,然而又软弱平庸的法兰西文明。 The French novel Mateo Falcone, a 19th-century realist writer, tells the story of an “honor murder” that occurred more than 180 years ago. Through the analysis of the novels, we can see the deep motivation of the writer writing in the early 19th century when European intellectuals and readers took such “honorary murder” attitude in European cultural background: Hope to introduce a crude, rustic, resolute, brave and heterogeneous civilization to activate elegant and refined, but weak and mediocre French civilization.