现代普罗米修斯之审判——加缪的反抗与卡夫卡的法庭

The Judgement of Modern Prometheus:The Rebel of Camus and the Court of Kafka

加缪与卡夫卡都对普罗米修斯神话做了新的演绎:加缪以绝望的普罗米修斯对美的感知力与创造力来反抗历史意志与宗教审判,而卡夫卡则以化作山崖的普罗米修斯来预示无法获得神圣审判与救赎的现代人之绝境。加缪的"局外人"默尔索与卡夫卡的"乡下人"K皆非因"罪"被处死,两个现代普罗米修斯神话同两场现代人不得不出席的法庭审判,构成了一次深刻的对话与交锋:加缪强调卡夫卡的作品是"普遍的",不属于真正伟大的荒诞性作品,而卡夫卡笔下的法庭则判决了反抗者神话的终结。

In The Outsider and The Trial, the heroes were both executed not for what they actually did. In fact, the reason of the executions can be traced through what had happened to the modern Prometheus in Camus＇ Prometheus in Hell and Kafka^s Prometheus. Camus ~ Prometheus fights against the evil slavery of history and religious judgment by intensifying his own awakening conscience and the aesthetic power in recreating chaos; Kafka^s Prometheus turns into a rock for fear of pain, which reveals the truth of no salvation for the modern man. The end of Prometheus of Kafka somehow explains the dilemma and the collapse of Camus^s Prometheus myth both in public and in writing.