《割礼忏悔》与德里达的文学行动

Circonfession and Derrida's Literary Act

作为哲学家的德里达以《割礼忏悔》践行了一次奇特的文学行动。这是一部关于身世、秘密、悼亡、祈祷的作品,既有深刻的哲学维度,又富含文学的感性,对信仰、传统、体裁、叙事等不断进行着叩问和解构。我们将通过文本细读的方式,从割礼与盟约、自传体裁、忏悔对象和秘密书写几个方面对作品巨大的模糊性进行辨析。作者从割礼的主题出发,展开了对神学和奥古斯丁忏悔录的沉思,又在互文性中融入极度个人化的经验,引出忏悔对象的不确定性,并最终指向文学根本的不可读性和异质性。文学作为"行动"的"述行性"由此凸显。割礼这一宗教习俗则在文本的细密编织中转化为文学书写与生命经验的生动隐喻。

As a philosopher, Jacques Derrida performed a fascinating literary act with Circonfession. The work is about life, secret, mourning and prayer. Profoundly so- phisticated and full of literary sensitivity, it incessantly questions faith, tradition, genre and narrative. Through close reading of the text, I try to analyze its great ambiguity in different aspects： circumcision and alliance, autobiographical writing, confession＇s destiny and secret writing. Around the theme of circumcision, Derrida contemplates, with a complex game of intertextuality, on theology and St. Augustine＇s confessions as well as individual experiences, and finally reveals literature＇s fundamental unreadability and heterogeneity. As an ＂act＂, literature here fully shows its performative function. We would then conclude that Derrida, with this highly complicated texture, has made cir- cumcision a great metaphor for literary writing and life experience.