卡尔维诺的《零时间》读书笔记

Reading Notes of Calvino’s T-Zero

卡尔维诺在一边创作一边将创作的过程写成文学。一直到了很晚,即20世纪初,人类对文学艺术本质的认识才由卡夫卡这样的作家将其大大地向前推进了。此前的莎士比亚、但丁、塞万提斯等人都不自觉地做过这方面的工作,而最早自觉地进行这方面开拓的作品应该是歌德的《浮士德》。毫无疑问,卡尔维诺是这方面的大师。《软月亮》显示了月亮的野性和我们地球一直在笨拙而绝望地重建的理性之间的相互依存关系;《鸟的起源》揭示的是文学意识的觉醒;《晶体》是一篇关于理想追求的挽歌;《血,海》揭示了人性的构成和层次。

Calvino put his composing process into literature work. Late to the 20th century, people’s understanding of the essence of the art of literature was highly enhanced with the help of writers like Kafka before whom Shakespeare, Dante, and Cervantes had done the same unconsciously. And the earliest piece of such work should be Goethe’s Faust. Undoubtedly Calvino is the master in this field.