文学史这三个字眼,在我们的心中究竟该是什么样子呢?是简练还是纷繁,是凝滞还是变幻,是已然棺盖论定还是急需推陈出新,在[美]宇文所安的这本自选集《他山的石头记》(田晓菲译,刘东主编,江苏人民出版社2003年1月)中,我们似乎隐约找到了某些提示。文学史绝对不会注定是我们最熟悉的那个样子:像一只只美丽而脆弱的已经逝去的珍稀蝴蝶的标本,陈列在博物馆坚固的玻璃罩之下,神圣得让人心生敬畏,每当我们踮着脚尖睁大双眼努力观察它们的时候,脑海里闪现的只有一个词——认识——尽力地去认识那绚丽翅膀 Literary history of these three words, in our hearts exactly what it is like? Is concise or numerous, is stagnation or change, is already a matter of course, or the urgent need to introduce new ideas in this [United States] In the book, “The Stone in Other Mountains” (edited by Tian Xiaofei, edited by Liu Dong, Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, January 2003), we seem to have found some clumsy hints. Literary history is definitely not meant to be what we are most familiar with: like a beautiful and fragile sample of the rare, butterflies that have passed away, displayed under the firm glass cover of the museum, sacred is awe-inspiring, whenever we When I tiptoe wide open my eyes and try to observe them, there is only one word that flashed in my mind - knowing - trying to know the brilliant wings