从符号学看卡夫卡式图像与类梦

On Kafkaesque image-like and dream-like narrative from the perspective of semiotics

卡夫卡讲述故事的方式“不是抽象的推论”,而是以类图像的方式呈现。卡夫卡的文学叙述几乎都是由具体的意象所引导的,小说主人公的眼睛,而不是心智占据了观视和判断的中心,思想无法根据理性逻辑和既有的经验对当下所经历的事件作出合乎常规的判断。在卡夫卡式类梦叙述中,不存在脱离形象视图的抽象语言,语言所激发的意识和联想总是以某种画面为出发点,其小说的类梦叙述和类图像特征,是以言词造梦、言词作画的结果。他的小说犹如他的画作,抽离了可感触的质性化的东西,只留下被描绘之物的运动踪迹,一个被剥离质性的外壳。

Kafka’s way of storytelling is“not abstract inferences”,but in an image-like way.Almost all of Kafka’s narratives are guided by some specific images.The protagonist’s eyes,rather than his mind,occupy the center of observation and judgment,and the mind cannot make a conventional judgment of the events experienced in the present based on rational logic and existing experience.In Kafkaesque dream-like narrative,there is no abstract language that is separated from the image view.The consciousness and association inspired by the language always started from a certain picture.The dream-like narrative and image-like features of his novels are the result of making dreams and painting by words.His novels are like his paintings,pulling away from the palpable qualitative things,leaving only traces of the movement of what is depicted,a shell stripped of its qualitative qualities.