园中的忙碌——有关《奥伯曼》中“闲散”问题的思考

Occupied in a Garden:About the Issue of“Oisiveté”in Oberman

法国浪漫派早期重要作家瑟南谷的小说《奥伯曼》在法国现代文学史上占有不可忽视的地位,但长期以来得到的关注度与其自身价值不成正比。该书属书信体小说,粗略来看具有篇幅冗长、去架构化、反叙事的表象。但是深入观察,却能发现,其外表的松散实际上折射了18世纪中后期至19世纪一些浪漫派作家有关“闲散”的核心理念,似乎在闲散之中反而更能促成剧烈的遐思。这种悖论式的张力关系即是本文所要探讨的话题。

The novel Oberman,written by Senancour in the early French Romanticist period,occupies an important position in modern French literary history.For a long time,however,the attention it has drawn does not stand in proportion to its proper worth.The novel belongs to the genre of epistolary novel,having an appearance of being lengthy,not well framed and anti-narrative.But a closer examination may make the reader aware that its external looseness actually reflects a key notion of“Oisiveté”held by some Romantic writers from the middle and late 18th century to the 19th century.It seems that the state of idleness may lend itself to intense contemplation.This paradoxical tension is what this article attempts to address.