文学见证与见证文学

Literary Witness and Witness Literature

自诞生之日起,文学便始终是人类活动的重要见证,可以说,见证是文学最基本的功能和价值。但作为一种文学类型,见证文学则是在20世纪的灾厄中问世的新生儿,它的创作主体,是那些历史苦难的普通亲历者。见证文学对生命的思考和关怀,仰赖的是个体化的切身经验与独特感受,它更凭借个人的道德与伦理力量,去揭示历史帷幕背后的真相,以延续历史断裂的脉络,阻绝对历史创伤的漠视和遗忘,并针对往昔,重构当下的记忆框架。显然,见证文学的意义,即在于它能持守文学特有的求真品质与审美形式,为过去与未来编织纽带、搭建桥梁,从而帮助读者抵达历史和文学皆无法单独抵达的地方。

Literature has been bonded with the activities of human be- ings ever since the origination. It is reasonable to proclaim that witnessing is one of the key function and value of literatures. As a form of literature, wit- nessing literature originated in the 20th century when varies adversities were happened. The main originators are those who experienced grim historical pe- riods. The thinking and caring of the meaning of lives relies on the experience and feeling of certain individuals. The truth reflected by witnessing literatures is unveiled based on the personal value of morality and ethics, which can fill up the lost details of certain historical affairs, prevent people from ignorance and oblivion of the pain that happened in history, and reforming acom- prehensive understanding of history. Witness literature is of great significance because of the combination of history and literature with its identical truth- seeking and aesthetic character