摘要
从历史与叙事的关系角度来看,加缪的《鼠疫》通过创造一种"作为历史见证的文学",体现了历史与叙事之关系的深刻转变:历史必然包含文学(叙事)。文学见证大屠杀不只是为了记录,而且是为了从新的视野理解大屠杀,实现对历史的转化,亦即改变历史知识的性质。《鼠疫》采取寓言的形式书写历史,在鼠疫与大屠杀这两个超出了原先历史理解框架的"不可能"而又确实发生了的事件之间,建立了深刻的隐喻关联。正是在原有的历史概念和历史书写模式的失败处,《鼠疫》以文学的见证方式见证了"作为大屠杀的历史"。
Albert Camus’s The Plague establishes a mode of"literature as historical testimony"and demonstrates a profound shift in the relationship between history and narrative,and it implies that literature(narrative)is inevitably embedded in history.Literature as a testimony to the Holocaust does not record the Holocaust but also offers a new perspective to understand it.This actualizes the transformation of history as it changes the nature of historical knowledge.The history in The Plague is written in the mode of an allegory,and it establishes a profound metaphorical relation between the plague and the Holocaust.As both the plague and the Holocaust are beyond the original cognitive framework of history,The Plague,as literary testimony,witnesses the history of the Holocaust where prior historical concepts and the mode of historical writing failed.
作者
陶东风
Tao Dongfeng(College of Humanities,Guangzhou University,Guangzhou 510006,Guangdong,China;Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies,Guangzhou University)
出处
《文艺理论研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2021年第2期43-53,共11页
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
关键词
历史
叙事
大屠杀
全面诅咒
见证文学
history
narrative
the Holocaust
total condemnation
literature as testimony
作者简介
陶东风,广州大学粤港澳大湾区语言服务与文化传承研究中心教授,广州大学当代文化研究中心主任,主要从事文学理论和当代中国文化研究。通讯地址:广东省广州大学城外环西路230号,广州大学人文学院,510006。电子邮箱:dftao1959@163.com。
