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寻求人生的价值和意义是千百年来文学的重要话题,即使在科学技术和物质文明高度发达的当代社会中,亦是如此。发展到极致的科学技术创造了大量财富和智能化的种种手段。富有操纵色彩的科技理性不仅深入社会、经济、政治,而且浸染着人们的思维、行为、心态。但在用金钱和商品堆砌起来的精致的物质舒适之外,人们难道就不再有其他的需要和追求?哲人说物极必反,超越了界限的绝对化的理性必然会走向扭曲和荒诞,而在貌似荒诞现象的背后也许蕴涵着深刻的哲理,犹如一个硬币的正反两面。以此作为描写主题的作家大有人在。罗马尼亚当代犹太作家格奥尔基·施瓦茨(Gheorghe Schwartz,1945—)即是其中之一,他的幽默小品文别具一格,对于这类场景的刻画明快犀利,颇为耐人寻味。施瓦茨自20世纪70年代初步人罗马尼亚文坛以来,已经创作了十数部长篇小说和散文集。这里刊载的幽默小品文均译自他的新作《施瓦茨偏执狂》(罗马尼亚克卢西乌姆出版社,1999年版)。
The search for the value and meaning of life is an important topic of literature for thousands of years, even in contemporary society where science, technology and material civilization are highly developed. The development of science and technology to the limit has created a great deal of wealth and intelligence. Rich manipulative science and technology not only deepen the social, economic, political, but also the dissemination of people’s thinking, behavior, mentality. But beyond the exquisite material comforts piled up with money and goods, are there no other needs and pursuits of philosophers? The philosophers say that things must be reversed, and the absolute reason beyond the bounds will inevitably lead to distortion and absurdity. Behind the absurd phenomenon may implicate profound philosophies, like the pros and cons of a coin. There are many writers who use this as a theme of description. One of them, Gheorghe Schwartz (1945-), a contemporary Jewish Jewish writer in Romania, has a unique style of humorous essay, and his portrayal of such scenes is very sharp and intriguing. Since the beginning of the Romanian literary world in the 1970s, Schwartz has created dozens of novels and essays. The humorous essays here are all translated from his new book, The Schwartz Paranoid (Clouxime, Romania, 1999 edition).