摘要
卡夫卡《城堡》的主人公名叫K.。他的职业,或者说,他自称自己的职业是土地测量员。为什么卡夫卡让他笔下的主人公从事的是这样一种古老的职业?这位土地测量员并没有土地可以测量,他的身份是不确定的。正因为这种身份的不确定,他实质上是存在的勘探者。他探讨存在的根由、价值和意义,因此,卡夫卡成为存在主义作家的先驱。阿甘本认为,K.的名字来源于一种古老的土地测量工具,土地测量员就是设定界限和打破界限,这种界限不仅是土地的界限,也是人与人、人与神、人与自我的界限。人的存在也是永远处在定界与破界之间。
In Franz Kafka’s novel The Castle, the protagonist K. claims that he is a land surveyor by profession. However, K. has no land to survey, which undermines the certainty of K.’s profession. Why, then, did Kafka choose this ancient profession for his protagonist? The uncertainty of K.’s identity, the paper claims, implies that K. is in essence an explorer of existence. Thus, Kafka was a pioneer of existentialist writers. Giorgio Agamben argues that the protagonist K. gets the name from kardo, an old instrument for land surveying. The land surveyor’s work is to establish and to break boundaries-not only those between lands, but also those between men, between man and deities, and between men and their selves. Man’s existence lies forever between boundary establishment and abolishment.
作者
曾艳兵
Zeng Yanbing(College of Literary Studies,Tianjin Normal University)
出处
《文艺理论研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2019年第5期161-169,共9页
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
基金
国家社科基金重点项目“卡夫卡与中国文学、文化之关系研究”[项目编号17AWW002]阶段性成果~~
