在历史中寻找历史本身——评基泽尔《1918—1933年德语文学史》

A Review of Helmuth Kiesel’s Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur 1918-1933

赫尔穆特·基泽尔2017年出版的《1918—1933年德语文学史》具有与其所叙述的历史长度不成比例的厚度,本文认为,这主要是由基泽尔的反目的论式撰史态度和历史化文学史写作原则导致的。这两方面态度都力求尽可能重构时代政治、社会和文学生活现场,因此极大扩展了观察领域和分析材料的选取范围,大幅度增加了叙述的材料和内容。与以经典作家作品为线索的文学史相比,这种文学史具有更强的跨学科色彩。

Helmuth Kiesel’s History of German Literature 1918-1933 has a thickness disproportionate to the length of the history he wrote about.This article considers that this is mainly caused by Kiesel’s anti-teleological history approach and his historicizing literary historiography principle,with which he strives to reconstruct the political,social and literary life scene of the era as much as possible,so that it has greatly expanded the scope of observation and selection of analytical materials,and greatly increased the materials and contents of the narrative.Compared with the literary history based on the literary canons this kind of literary history has a stronger interdisciplinary inclination.