在人生边上的智慧言说——钱钟书与《写在人生边上》

A Wise Speech on the Edge of Life——Qian Zhongshu and His Writings on the Edge of Life

钱钟书是一位对哲学始终保持着浓厚兴趣的作家型学者。散文集《写在人生边上》贯穿着他的怀疑精神、否定精神、批判精神。他的许多议论,都是从平凡入手,从矛盾入手,从佯谬入手,从而导向对真理的叩问与探索。钱钟书的幽默体现出一种高超的智慧,是对世事的达观、洞悉,思想敏捷,知识广博,心力活跃,超越了一般快乐戏谑的表现形式,而呈现出一种奚落、讽刺、刻薄的美。

Qian Zhongshu is such a scholarly writer who always keeps great interest in philosophy. His collection of prose Writings on the Edge of Life is full of his spirit of doubt, spirit of negation, and spirit of critique. Many of his comments are started with the ordinary, contradiction and sham absurdity and lead to the question and exploration for truth. Qian Zhongshu＇ s humor shows us a kind of excellent wisdom, and it is the sensible of human affairs and wide range of knowledge and nimble thought that exceed the normal expression of happiness and banter, and show us the charm of ridicule, satire and acrimony.