卡尔维诺在《阿根廷的蚂蚁》这部短篇小说里为我们描述了常人的生存状态:自溺于生存的困惑当中却始终无法摆脱这种事实。他们尝试用多种途径来为人生的自由打开一个缺口,让汹涌的生命激情迸发,但蚂蚁般的琐碎牵绊住了他们的翅膀。本文通过对卡尔维诺这篇小说的探究,试图挖掘出小说中关于人类生存的困惑与自由索求之间的矛盾,以及卡尔维诺为我们提供的答案。 Calvino described us as an ordinary person in the short story “Ants of Argentina”: the fact that he has never been able to escape the confusion of survival. They try to use a variety of ways to open a gap in their freedom of life, so that the raging passion of life burst forth, but the ants trivially hold their wings. Through the exploration of Calvino’s novel, this article tries to find out the contradiction between the confusion and free demand of human existence in the novel and the answer that Calvino provided to us.