170多年前 ,德国诗人歌德有感于民族间的文学交流 ,而作出“民族文学在现代算不了很大的一回事 ,世界文学的时代已快来临了”① 的预言。那时 ,他无论如何也想象不到 ,在 2 0世纪最后几十年间 ,由于科学技术的发明与革新 ,人类借以认知、表述世界与自我的路径似乎被空前地拓展 More than 170 years ago, the German poet Goethe felt the inter-ethnic literary exchange and made the prophecy that “national literature is not a big one in the modern world, the era of world literature is coming”. At that time, he could not imagine anyway. In the last decades of the 20th century, because of the invention and innovation of science and technology, the path by which mankind perceived and expressed the world and himself seemed to be expanding unprecedentedly