疾病、记忆与艺术想象——对读史铁生与普鲁斯特

Disease,Memory and Artistic Imagination——A Comparative Reading of Shi Tiesheng and Marcel Proust

从疾病与创作心理的关系这一角度出发,不仅有助于揭示史铁生和普鲁斯特各自创作历程的某些特质,并可对其成因做出合理的解答。常年的病榻生涯极大地限制了作家的行动能力和范围,使其深入且执着于内心世界的追忆与探询;病痛经验孕育出相似的"痛苦观",试图以写作超越痛苦,获得解脱。两位小说家从"有限"的记忆资源之中生发出"无穷"的想象的方式则各有千秋,而他们对无意识记忆的强调,以及从艺术想象切近"真实"的追求,又可谓殊途同归,都是为了由此开辟出一片自求于回忆和想象的创造天地。

It is an insightful way to understand the writings both of French novelist Marcel Proust and of his Chinese counterpart Shi Tiesheng when we relate their psychology of creation with their diseases suffered for years, which imprisoned them physically but contributed a lot to a more desperate inquiry into their inner world, that is, memory and imagination. The two novelists are devoted to writing in order to go beyond their physical sufferings and obtain their extrication. Both of them produce their “boundless” way of imagination from their totally different “limited” source of memory. While the way they emphasize the unconscious memory and pursue the closer “truth” from their artistic imagination is almost similar. They open up a creative world of their own memory and imagination.