论《失明症漫记》的看见与看不见

On“Insight”and“Invisible”inThe Blindness

萨拉马戈的寓言体长篇小说《失明症漫记》描绘了遭遇失明症时疫后,普遍人性的丧失和文明的坍塌,也揭示出在未曾失去理性和情感的医生妻子的带领下,失明症患者人性的回归和精神的救赎。失明症造成的看不见,既反映出盲人们丧失主体思考的奴性思维,也反映出统治者“‘不看见’就是‘不存在’”的自我欺骗逻辑。“能看就要看见”,活着的人们需要再生,找到失去的自我,成为真正的人。作家是社会的良心,知识分子是时代的眼睛,他们必须看见人性的幽暗,反思时代的病症,才能使人类经受灾疫的考验,保持人的尊严。

Saramago’s allegorical novel The Blindness describes the general loss of humanity and the collapse of civilization after the epidemic of blindness.It also reveals the blind’s return of humanity and salvation of spirit led by the wife of a doctor who had never lost reason and emotion.The“invisible”caused by blindness reflected not only blind people’s loss of thinking independently,but also the ruler’s self-deception of“out of sight is out of existence”.“If you can look,you must see.”People alive need to“regenerate”to find their lost self and become real people.Writers are the conscience of society and intellectuals are the eyes of the times.They must“see”the darkness of human nature and reflect on the illnesses of the times in order to make people stand the test of disasters and maintain human dignity.