乌托邦小说:作为研究存在的艺术

Utopian Fiction: An Art of Studying Being and Existence

长期以来,作为西方文学史上重要文学现象的乌托邦文学,尤其是乌托邦及反乌托邦小说没有受到应有的重视,这种情况在中国尤其为甚。这在一定程度上既遮蔽了我们对西方文学史整体景观的了解与鉴赏,也阻隔了我们获得有价值的文学思想资源的可能性。作为研究存在的亚小说文类,乌托邦小说及反乌托邦小说能为我们走近存在,走近人自身的生存境遇,反思我们的文学观,进而重写文学史提供独特视角。

As an important literary phenomenon in the Western literary history, utopian literature or literary utopia (especially Utopian and anti-Utopian/dystopian fictions) has not been treated with due emphasis. As far as we Chinese scholars are concerned, it is particularly true that we barely pay serious attention to this sub-genre of literature. This has not only shielded us from understanding Western literary history as a whole,but hindered us from those possibilities of obtaining valuable literary resources. As an important sub-genre of novel, Utopian and anti-Utopian/dystopian fictions can offer us a special perspective in interpreting human being's existent situations, in reflecting our ideas of literature, moreover, in re-writing our literary history both at home and abroad.