“一个情感伤口的象征”——卡夫卡与疾病

Kafka and Disease

卡夫卡短促的一生与疾病密切相关。卡夫卡最终死于肺病,这种病似乎使卡夫卡的一生变得更有色彩和光亮。他在疾病中创作,在创作中表现着疾病。卡夫卡对疾病有自己的理解和认识,他熟悉疾病更甚于熟悉健康。对于一个作家而言,疾病不仅直接影响到他的身心健康、生活方式,还会影响甚至制约他的思想方式和写作方式。当疾病作为一种隐喻时,它几乎成了创作本身。我们很难想象患上另外一种疾病的卡夫卡将会是怎样一种情形,正如我们无法想象没有创作的卡夫卡将会是怎样一种情形一样。

Diseases had always followed Franz Kafka like a shadow.He died of TB,an illness that seemed to have made his short life more bright and colorful.Kafka experienced and interpreted diseases in such particular styles that he seemed to become more familiar with the state of being ill than that of being healthy.In a sense,remaining unhealthy not only affects a writer's lifestyle and his/her physical and mental condition,but the writer's modes of thinking and creation as well.When disease functions as a metaphor,it has almost become literary creation itself.