翻看2016年深秋季的文学刊物,发现想从众多的作品中提炼出共同性的话题近乎徒劳,如果有的话,那么它们也并未提供堪称新质的东西。这或许是文学的常态,加缪说福克纳的伟大在于,他提供给世界一个古老但永远不能被写尽的主题:盲人在他的命运与他的责任之间跌跌撞撞地朝前走。而我们每个人都是这个隐喻化的盲者,带着恐惧与希望跌跌撞撞地上路。 Looking at the literary journals in the fall of 2016, I found it almost futile to extract the commonalities from a multitude of works, and if not, they did not offer anything new. This may be the norm of literature, and Camus said Faulkner’s great lies in the fact that he offers the world an ancient but never-to-be-written theme: blind people stumble ahead between his fate and his responsibilities. And each one of us is this metaphorical blind man, stunned by fear and hope.