《庆祝无意义》中的宗教意义透视

Religious Meaning of the Festival of Insignificance

米兰·昆德拉最新小说《庆祝无意义》中实际上表现了作者对人类终极救赎问题的思考过程,其中分别探讨了绝对宗教信仰的救赎、在神的庇护下人类的自我救赎以及人类完全的自我救赎三种救赎方式,却均被最终证明不具有可行性,且人类长期受困于此三种救赎方式构成的死循环中。既然人类无法洞悉救赎之道,不如保持好心情,摒弃千百年来无数哲人的无谓求索,安心使人类的谱系之树枝繁叶茂。至于救赎问题,待到人类即将毁灭之时,答案自明。

Milan Kundera's latest work The Festival of Insignificance(La Fête de L'insignifiance in French original version)actually reveals the author's thought processes about human beings' ultimate salvation.Three kinds of methods of salvation,namely,salvation by absolute religious belief,salvation by human beings under the protection of God and salvation merely by human beings are proved false respectively eventually.And human beings have always been confusing by the infinite loop made of these three kinds of salvation.Since human beings cannot catch the way of salvation,it would be better for them to maintain good temper,to give up meaningless exploration that a large number of philosophers have tried for long and concentrate on human beings' reproduction.As for salvation,the answer would not be decoded until humans' destruction.