在今天,如果还说卡夫卡是20世纪文学奠基人的话,恐怕已是令人生厌的老生常谈了。但感觉这一说法生厌的人,似乎又常常会忽略一个问题,那就是卡夫卡一辈子都没有摆脱“工人工伤保险公司”小职员身份。这一身份在明白无误地告诉我们,终其一生,卡夫卡不过是一个业余写作者。因此问题的核心就变成,写作究竟有无职业与业余之分?把问题延伸一下,对一个写作者来说,写作于他(她),究竟处于什么样的位置?在1913年11月27日的日记中,卡夫卡写有这么一句话,“我感到的是自己的孤立无援,像个局 Today, if you say that Kafka was the founder of 20th century literature, I am afraid it is annoying clichés. However, people who feel so annoyed by this argument often seem to ignore the one problem that Kafka never freed himself from as a worker’s injury insurance company. This identity tells us unmistakably that for the rest of his life Kafka is merely an amateur writer. Therefore, the core of the question becomes, what is the difference between occupation and amateurism in writing? To extend the question to what kind of position should a writer write to him or her? In November 19, 1913 In the diary of Japan, Kafka wrote such a sentence, ”I feel my own helplessness, like a bureau