当下,人们都在谈论文学的终结。文学的终结意味着什么?究竟该如何理解文学的终结?的确,从诗的边缘化、经典作品的束之高阁、纯文学刊物的难以为继以及文学研究的各种学科性转向(转向社会学、文化学、知识学、心理学等等),不难看出文学似乎正在终结。不过,目前文学的苟延残喘并不值得我们这些文学研究从业人员伤感悲叹,它仅仅意味着某种旧的文学幽灵正在退场,而某种新的文学幽灵正在出场。德里达在《马克思的幽灵》一书中告诉我们,马克思主义是“既非实体、又非本质亦非存在的东西。”它本身永远也不会到场或在场,它只会在每一种具体化的形式中幽灵般地留下它的踪迹。借助德里达的这个思想,我想说,“文学”同“马克思主义”一样,它也是既非实体、又非本质亦非存在的东西,它本身 Now, people are talking about the end of literature. What exactly does the end of literature mean? How to understand the end of literature? Indeed, from the marginalization of poetry, the uproar of classic works, the unsustainability of purely literary publications and the various disciplinary changes in literary studies (turning to sociology and culture Science, knowledge, psychology, etc.), it is not hard to see that literature seems to be ending. However, the current lingering literature is not worth the sad lamentations of the literary researchers. It merely means that some old literary ghost is leaving and some new ghost of literature is playing. In his book Marx Ghost, Derrida tells us that Marxism is “neither physical nor essential nor existing.” “It will never be present or present in itself, Specified forms ghostly leave its trail. With Derrida’s thought, I would like to say that ”literature", like Marxism, is also something that is neither entity nor essential nor existing, and itself