魂兮归来:大江健三郎与大濑村

The Return of the Soul:Kenzaburo Oe and Ose Village

大江健三郎出生于日本爱媛县一座森林中的小山村。阿婆讲述的故乡暴动故事在激发儿时大江革命想象的同时,多年后也成为大江文学的强韧底流。经由曾外祖父接受的民本主义思想则为大江的暴动叙事提供了伦理支撑,其后内化为大江接受战后民主主义和传统人文主义的道德基础,并最终引导其走向后人文主义叙事,将自己有限的个体生命永久融归于流变不居的、以“咱们”加以概括的“新人”这个共同体之中,从而打破自我与他者、生者与死者、个体与群体的界限,为后人文主义关怀留下一抹温暖的亮色。

Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe(January 31,1935-March 3,2023)was born in a small village in the forests of the Shikoku region of Japan.The story of the hometown riot told by his grandma not only stimulated the revolutionary imagination of Oe as a child,but also became a strong underflow of Oe's literature many years later.The people-oriented thought adopted by his great-grandfather provided ethical support for Oe's riot narrative,and became the moral basis for Oe's subsequent acceptance of post-war democracy and traditional humanism,and finally led him to a post-humanist narrative,permanently merging his limited individual life into the ever-changing community of"new man"summarized by"we,"thus breaking the boundaries between self and the other,living and dead,individual and group,and leaving a warm bright color for post-humanist care.