“经典”何以可能——论艾略特与库切关于经典的对话

How "Classic" Becomes Possible-On the Dialogue about "Classic" between Eliot and Coetzee

艾略特与库切都曾发表过讨论经典的演讲,这场跨越时空的对话向我们展示了"经典"这一概念本身所蕴含的复杂性和深刻性,以及它所面对的质疑与适当的理解。后现代语境中的"经典"与其他所有的宏大词语一样面临被消解的现实。但是两位作家文章中的争论,却为我们探讨"经典"这一概念的内延与外涵提供了充分的基础,也同时说明了"经典"作为一种判定标准所具有的必要性与重要意义。

Both Eliot and Coetzee had made speeches on the title ＂What is classic＂, and this dialogue across space and time displays to us the complication and profundity of this concept ＂classic＂ itself, and the question it faces and the appropriate understang as well. ＂Classic＂ in the post - modem context, as well as other big words, is facing the reality of being eliminated. The two writers＇ debates in their artiles provide us sufficient foundation in exploring the interior extent and outer implication of the concept ＂classic＂, and at the same time explain the necessity and importante that ＂classic＂ possesses as a criterion.