今天,我们几乎是在冥顽不化地为文学做着正当性的辩解。这不仅凸显了文学的尴尬,亦让我们时代的名誉受到连累。在这个物质的世界里,文学的虚构性,仿佛已经成为它的原罪。在真实的生活面前,它们显得多么虚弱和不合时宜。这生活真实吗?似乎是不言而喻的事实,然而我们并不满意这种“真实”。被诸多概念重重包裹着的生活,跟真实似乎还有一点距离。换句话说,相比于真实,它似乎还缺少一点什么。威廉·巴雷特在《非理性的人》中十分尖锐地指出,“今天的人在完全超出过去的人的一种抽象水平生活 Today, we are justifiably justifying literature almost stubbornly. This not only highlights the awkwardness of literature, but also impairs the reputation of our time. In this material world, the fictionality of literature seems to have become its original sin. In the face of real life, how weak and outdated they appear. This life is real? Seems to be self-evident fact, however, we are not satisfied with this ”real “. The concept of life wrapped in many concepts seems to be a little further away from reality. In other words, it seems a bit lacking in comparison to reality. William Barrett pointed out very sharply in Irrational Man, ”Today’s people live at an abstract level that is completely beyond that of the past