《一九四九：傷痕書寫與國家文學》书评

1949：Writings of the Scarred and National Literature

Four inspiring articles included in this book,they are "Writings of the Scarred and National Literature","Reread Eileen Chang's The Rice Sprout Song and The Naked Earth","The Monster That Is History",and "History,Memory and The Dao of Universities:Four Tales of Successors".I like the fourth article,which addresses four intellectuals,何其芳、馮志、唐君毅and林語堂, undergoing respective transformation in the middle of last century. They all had to confront the same target: How should they proceed with college teaching when their surroundings were different?David's analysis is really amazing.From the perspective of literaty history, he wants to say that if universities are not merely the loci of delving into knowledge,but also the place where the literati dedicate themselves to questing for the significance of living, these four characters' writings may be the reflection of the Dao of universities. In the confluence of the writings and the Dao, the dialogue between "what-should-be" and "what-have-been" of the middle of the 2oth century can be interpreted from various angles.