捕捉理性之外的瞬间——论穆西尔的《学生特尔莱斯的困惑》

Capturing the Spiritual Instant beyond Rationalism—An Analysis of Musll's Young Trless's Perplexities

罗伯特·穆西尔小说《学生特尔莱斯的困惑》主人公特尔莱斯总是对现实中那些理所当然的事物进行哲思,在同一瞬间进入不同的两个世界,穆西尔借此开始了他对20世纪人的心理和精神状态以及人类认识能力深层次的探讨。本文通过论述这个特殊人物从进入困惑到摆脱困惑的令人不可思议过程,探究穆西尔如何捕捉微妙的“另一状态”。

Torless, the special protagonist in Robert Musil＇s novel Young Torless＇s Perplexities, always meditates over phenomena in reality that common people take for granted, entering two totally different states at the same instant. By that Musil has begun to depict in his novels different mental and psychological states of various characters living in the 20^th century, and explored deeply into the cognitive capacity of human beings. This essay makes an investigation into how Musil captures this subtle ＂different state＂, analyzing the mysterious process Torless experiences from getting caught in perplexities to tearing them off.