祖先哲学与欲望现实——《兄弟》与《祖先》的对读

Ancestor-Philosophy and Desire-Reality——A Compartive Reading between Brothers and Ancestors

余华的《兄弟》与他十几年前的中篇小说《祖先》呈现出惊人的同构性。《祖先》表现了余华"否定欲望"的"祖先"哲学,这种哲学渗透在其"转型"后小说《活着》与《许三观卖血记》中,而与《祖先》存在高度相关性的《兄弟》同样是以这种"祖先"哲学观照当下欲望现实的结果。余华对现代欲望社会的忧虑与本雅明对现代性的思考是相似的,而《兄弟》的内容与形式也暗合了本雅明对现代性语境下艺术命运的分析与论述。

Yu Hua＇s Brothers shows remarkable similarities with his novella Ancestors written ten years ago. Ancestors showed Yu Hua＇ s ＂ ancestor＂ -philosophy which denied people＇ s desire, and this philosophy permeates Yu Hua＇ s novel To Live and A Story about Xu San-guan, the Blood-Seller after his ＂transition＂, while Brothers, which has a high degree of correlation with Ancestors, is also the results to use this philosophy to observe contemporary social reality full of desire. Yu Hua ＇ s concerns of modern greedy society are similar with Benjamin＇ s reflection for modernity, at the same time, the content and form of Brothers are also coincident with Benjamin＇ s analysis and discussion on the fate of modern art in the context of modernity.