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“最近我没能得那个写作奖,他们说我太懒了。”以上是美国作家、翻译家莉迪娅·戴维斯(Lydia Davis,1947—)一则短篇小说的全文,亦是其典型的写作风格:寥寥数字,极简主义,叙事在瞬息之间完成;而抛给读者的阅读过程却刚刚开始——读者对文本一扫而过后自行离开,心中却难免牵挂萦回——“我”是谁?“他们”又是谁?为什么“他们”说“我”懒?“我”真的懒吗?“那个写作奖”重要吗?这是一种自我讥嘲,还是一种自我解嘲?——阅读的开端恰恰始于阅读的结束。
“I have not been able to get the writing prize recently, they say I’m too lazy.” These are the full text of a short story by the American writer and translator Lydia Davis (1947-) Its typical style of writing: a handful of numbers, minimalist, narrative in the twinkling of an eye to complete; and the process of reading to the reader has just begun - the reader left the text after the swept away, but in the heart but inevitably worried about - “Who am I?” “Who are they?” Why? “They” Say “I ” Lazy? “I ” Really lazy? “That writing award ” Important? Is this a self-mocking or a self-deprecating? - The beginning of reading begins precisely with the end of reading.