2003年度的诺贝尔文学奖,颁发给了南非作家约翰·库切。又是一个中国读者并不十分熟悉的名字。这也不足为奇。这几年的文学“诺奖”,不是让人觉得陌生,就是令人深感意外。意外引发了解的愿望,陌生则刺激人的好奇心,———这足以制造出令人惊讶的阅读奇观。据《北京晚报》(2003 The 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature was presented to South African writer John Coetzee. It is also a Chinese reader is not very familiar with the name. This is not surprising. In recent years, the “Nobel Prize” for literature is not surprising to people. Accidentally trigger the desire to understand, unfamiliarity is to stimulate people’s curiosity --- enough to create a spectacular spectacle of reading. According to “Beijing Evening News” (2003