“偷听”是一个在现代文学里发生的文学事件,它的政治性一直没有得到认真分析。本文将之解释为现代主体的一个特殊的姿态,一个排除集体经验以获取自我绝对性的行为,一个无事件性的事件,一个虚构的崇高历史主体的政治无意识。并以《沉沦》为个案对其中的四次偷听事件作出批判性研究,以部分地解释五四以来的浪漫主义源流中的绝对个人概念和相关的文学形式。 “Eavesdropping” is a literary event that takes place in modern literature. Its political nature has not been carefully analyzed. This article interprets it as a special gesture of the modern subject, an act that excludes collective experience in order to obtain absolute egohood, an event without incident, and a political unconscious of a sublime historical subject. And to “sink” as a case of one of the four eavesdropping incident to make a critical study to explain in part the origins of romanticism since the May Fourth absolute personal concept and related literary forms.