《野草》:意义的黑洞与“肉薄”虚妄
作者简介:王风,北京大学中文系教授(北京 100871)
摘要: 《野草》是鲁迅整理自我的产物。串联《过客》《死后》《影的告别》《求乞者》《失掉的好地狱》《希望》《颓败线的颤动》《复仇》《复仇其二》《墓碣文》《这样的战士》诸篇什,所见乃一无所逃于天地亦无所逃于生死的个体,漫无目的地存在,只能以过程为目的。唯黑暗和虚无乃是实有,希望和绝望同归虚妄,意义的寂灭产生“肉薄虚妄”的行动哲学。最后归于向庸众和自己的“复仇”。由此可见,鲁迅是以“我”之“必无”所生成的行动,期之于“他者”之“可有”所唤发的行动,和合而成反抗的力量。而他临死之际的“夜记”,则更说明这是贯穿其一生的结构。
Wild Grass: A Black Hole for Meaning and the Action to “Approach the Vanity”
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2021-12-20
Abstract: Wild Grass was the product of Lu Xun’s self rearrangement. The present paper relates the following pieces of work, namely The Passer-by, After Death, The Shadow’s Farewell, The Beggars, The Lost Good Hell, Hope, Trembles On Decline, Revenge, Revenge II, The Epitaph and A Warrior As Such, with an explanation of the inner logic. An individual who has no escape in between the heaven and the earth or between the life and the dead, wandering aimlessly, has no choice but take the process as the end. Nothing is real but darkness and nihil. Despair is vainity, and so is hope. The nirvana of meaning begets the philosophy of action to “approach the vanity” (“肉薄虚妄”), which in the end leads to the “revenge” on the crowd and himself. The paper pionts out that Lu Xun has combined the action generated by the “impossible” (“必无”) of “self” and the action expectedly summoned by the “possibilities” (“可有”) of “the others” into a rebellious force. Such a structure worked for Lu Xun until his last days, as validated by an analysis into his posthumous manuscript “Soirnal” (“夜记”).