意图的挪用:奥登在中国

Misappropriation of Intention: Auden in China

作为抗战时期来华的西方作家之一,奥登广为中国知识分子熟知。然而,奥登中国之行的真正动机常为学界忽视,取而代之的是中国知识分子的系统误读,并将其塑造成为同情中国民族战争的苦难、揭露日本侵略罪行的正义的代言人形象。本文以详实的文本与史实例证,通过奥登在中西文化语境下的差异对比研究,分析抗战时期的民国知识分子如何系统地对奥登的中国之行进行误读与阐释,以迎合救国救民的宏观历史话语。笔者将这一过程总结为意图的挪用。然而,这种有意或无意的挪用,也可促成中国现代诗歌在创作手法上的革新。

As a Western journalist who came to China during the period of the Second Sino-Japanese War, W. H. Auden is well known to Chinese intellectuals. However, Auden＇s real motive to wartime China is often ignored by Chinese academia. Instead, Chinese intellectuals in Republican China systematically misinterpreted Auden, and regarded him as a spokesperson showing sympathy for the suffering of the Chinese people and exposing the brutality of the Japanese invasion. This article analyzes how Auden＇s visit to China was systematically misinterpreted in the Chinese context to cater to the grand discourse of national salvation through the comparison of understanding in different cultural-historical contexts by using detailed illustration of historical and literary texts. The author summarizes such process as the misappropriation of intention. However, such misappropriation, either consciously or not, can still contribute to the innovation of Chinese poetry in terms of poetic technique.