“半窗寒烛,冷落荒斋”——解读卡夫卡与蒲松龄

卡夫卡是西方现代派令人高山仰止的大师,其创作中的种种变形意象阐释了人的生存如一只红脚鼹鼠般孤独,只能局限在它的狭隘而又黑暗的地洞中;而蒲松龄的《聊斋志异》可谓中国古典文言小说的高峰,其笔下的人鬼狐妖有孤苦,亦有悲愤。二人在自我的“冷落荒斋”借著书立说抒发自己内心的抑郁苦闷,展示对人的生命存在的热切关怀。作为个体,他们是踽踽独行的孤独者;放大到集体,它们是浮生社会的殉难者;“半窗寒烛”,他们都是力透纸背,企图超越极限的艺术家。透过卡夫卡与蒲松龄的小说创作,我们可以看到一个亦真亦假的虚悬世界。

An Interpretation of Kafka and Pu Songling

Kafka is the western modernist high-lift master,and his creations are full of various deformation images,which explain that the survival of human beings is just like a red-footed lonely mole that can only be confined to its narrow dark hole.Pu Songling’s Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio can be described as the peak of Chinese classical literary novels.There are lonely agony and sad indignation in the novel.They two in their own“desolate house”express their inner depression and show their passionate care to individual’s existence.As individuals,they are lonely people who walk alone;For collectivity,they are the martyrs of the floating society.They are hard—working artists trying to pursue beyond the impossible limits.Through Kafka and Pu Songling’s novels,we can see a world of falsehood that could be true or false.