忧患与超越——古代文艺创作动力论阐释

Sufferings and Transcendence—On the Motives for Ancient Literary and Artistic Creation

“发愤著书”是最具中国特色的文艺创作动力论 ,尽管历代学者文人对其具体论述不尽相同 ,但他们都强调人在忧患、挫折中的情感激荡对文学创作的特殊作用。“愤书”的哲学底蕴是人类的忧患意识和超越意识 ,作家以自己的大笔传达自身的忧患体验 ,超越自身苦难唤醒世人 ,使人的“类本质”得以感性显现 ,这个过程既是作家痛苦的过程 ,也是他得到审美自由的过程。

“Writing for discontentment” is one of the most characteristics of Chinese literary and artistic creation motives. Though scholars and intellectuals typical throughout the history defined it in many different ways, they all emphasized an author's emotional surge in suffering and frustration, which had particular effects on his literary creation. The philosophic meaning of ”writing for discontentment” is humanity's suffering consciousness and transcendence consciousness, with which writers transmit their own experience of suffering with their pens, and transcend their own hardships and awaken common people, so as to show perceptually human's “race nature”. The process is of a writer's pains as well as of his gaining aesthetic freedom.