如果有人给我们讲，某人因为顺手敲了一下别人的院门，就被抓起来判刑，我们听了之后，一定会一笑置之，认为是天方夜谭。但是卡夫卡的短篇小说《对院门的一敲》，却恰恰讲述了这样一件事。兄妹二人在回家途中路过一座院落，妹妹不知道是出于什么动机，抬手敲了一下院门（... If someone tells us that somebody has been sentenced to prison since he was able to knock someone else’s court door smoothly, we would laugh at it and consider it a fantasy. However, Kafka’s short story “Knocking on the Courtyard Gate” just tells such a thing. Brother and sister passed by on the way home a courtyard, my sister did not know for what motivation, knocking on the door (...