事件真理与文学批评:阿兰·巴迪欧读贝克特

Event-Truth and Literary Criticism: On Badiou's Reading Beckett

阿兰·巴迪欧反对将贝克特视为表现虚无的荒诞派作家,他指出贝克特的创作中存在着从"唯我论"到"事件"思想转向,后期贝克特的作品表明,他致力于对"事件"的思考,并为此创作了"真理"的文本。巴迪欧以非美学思想为指导,试图以贝克特的方式阅读贝克特。他从文本的内在思想结构出发,提炼出适合于文本的批评概念,让文本的真理以概念的形式现身。他也成功揭示了一个等待事件,以文学创造的方式介入事件,并始终对事件充满希望的贝克特形象。巴迪欧的贝克特阅读对我们的文学批评有着重要的理论启发:文学批评不只是为了"解释"文本,更是为了捕获文本的"事件真理",来实现文学创作和批评话语的革新。

Alain Badiou rejects the conventional idea that Samuel Beckett was a playwright associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. He points out that,in Beckett＇s writing,there is ideological transfer from＂solipsism＂to＂event. ＂As has been shown in Beckett＇s later works,he devoted himself to his reflection about＂event,＂thus creating a text of＂truth. ＂Badiou,through his idea of Inaesthetics,attempts to understand Beckett in Beckett＇s own way. From the inherent ideological structure of the text,Badiou constructs critical concepts for the text,and consequently makes the truth of text appear in the form of concepts. He succeeds in projecting the image of Samuel Beckett as one that awaits the event,intervening in it by means of literary creation and having eternal hope for it. Badiou＇s interpretation of Beckett＇s works significantly enlightens literary critics in that literary criticism should not merely interpret the text but also capture the event-truth in the text,so as to achieve innovations in literary creation and criticism.