杰拉尔德·默南《平原》中的视觉与存在

Vision and Being in Gerald Murnane’s The Plains

自古希腊起,"认识你自己"这句箴言的意蕴就贯穿于西方思想发展的整个过程。如何认识自己,成为人类探索存在时思考的一个重要问题。当代澳大利亚作家杰拉尔德·默南从视觉的角度切入,对这一问题给出了解答。其作品《平原》通过刻画平原人内部的矛盾和主人公对这些矛盾的解构,折射出视觉的复杂性以及视觉与存在的关联。默南的《平原》将关于存在之思中长期被理性之光所遮蔽的感性脉络呈现在读者面前,揭示了视觉对于认识自己的作用,丰富了对存在的思考维度。

Since ancient Greece,implication of the aphorism "know thyself" has been throughout the development of Western thoughts. How to know oneself becomes an essential question in the process of exploring being. Contemporary Australian writer Gerald Murnane,from a perspective of vision,provides an answer to this question. His work The Plains,via depicting conflicts within the plainsmen and the protagonist’s deconstruction of the dichotomies on plains,reveals the complexity of vision and the connection between vision and being. The Plains presents the readers a perceptual thought thread which has long been obscured by the rational,reveals vision’s function in knowing oneself and,enriches angles in thinking of being.