论卡夫卡《饥饿艺术家》的悖谬美

Beauty of Absurdity in Starving Artist Written by Kafka

"悖谬"是卡夫卡热衷的美学手法,是卡夫卡生存体验在艺术上的升华。《饥饿艺术家》短小精悍,但寓意深刻,其悖谬性具体体现为饥饿艺术家与观众、看守、经理、豹子以及自身之间的矛盾和冲突。小说描写了饥饿艺术家的饥饿表演及其对艺术的疯狂追求,最终他以死证明了自身的价值。小说通过饥饿艺术家面对的重重矛盾展示了卡夫卡的悖谬美学,寓言式地揭示了现代人非理性的生存处境和孤独的生存感受。

Kafka experienced in-depth absurdity during his whole life, thus this became one of his favourite aesthetic styles. His novel Starving Artist depicts an artist who sacrifies his own life for his frenzied pursuit of art in a starving performance, and eventually proves his own value. Absurdity in this short but thought-provoking novel is manifested by contradictions and conflicts between the audience, guard, manager, leopard and the artist himself. This fable-like story not only displays the writer's aesthetics of absurdity, but also uncovers contemporary people's irrational existing circumstance and sense of loneliness in their living.