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「走到了幻想底盡頭」之後——史料交錯之間的「晚期穆旦問題」

After “I Have Reached Illusions End”: The “Late Mu Dan Issues” in Intersecting Historical Sources

Abstract:

「我已走到了幻想底盡頭」，出自穆旦1976年的名作《智慧之歌》，暮年的詩人藉此表達了某種酷烈的歷史感受。然而，「幻想底盡頭」不一定就是「幻滅」的荒原，不一定只是凜冽的寒冬；凜冽之中可能有不無亮色的生命洞察，「普通的生活」中還有「韌」的工作和戰鬥。近年來，藉助檔案、書信、日記及友人回憶等材料的挖掘和辨析，在易彬等學者的努力下，穆旦（查良錚）生活、寫作和翻譯的更多細節被呈現出來。在「豐富的史料」交錯中，穆旦之「豐富的問題」也有了被進一步打開的可能，其中就包括詩人在晚年寫作中迎來的新轉機，形成的新覺悟。

“I Have Reached Illusions End” is from Mu Dan’s 1976 masterpiece “Song of Wisdom,” in which the poet in his twilight years expressed intense historical sentiments. However, “illusions’ end” does not necessarily mean “disillusionment” or the bracing cold winter. There may be insights into life in the midst of the bitter cold, and there are still battles of “toughness” in “ordinary life.” In recent years, through the excavation and analysis of archives, letters, diaries and friends’ memories, and with the efforts of scholars such as Yi Bin, more details of Mu Dan’s (Zha Liangzheng) life, writing and translation have been revealed. In the midst of the “richness of historical materials,” the “richness of Mu Dan issues” has been further opened up, including the new opportunities and realisations that the poet has developed in his later years of writing.

About the Speaker:

姜濤  北京大學中文系教授，曾任日本大學文理學部、臺灣清華大學中文系客座副教授，現任香港中文大學中文系訪問教授，主要從事中國現代文學和20世紀新詩史的研究，主持學術集刊《新詩評論》。出版學術及批評專著《從催眠的世界中不斷醒來》、《公寓裡的塔：1920年代中國的文學與青年》、《巴枯寧的手》、《新詩集與中國新詩的發生》，詩集《洞中一日》、《鳥經》等。

Jiang Tao  Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University, former Visiting Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Nihon University and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University, Taiwan. Currently, he is Visiting Professor in the Department of Chinese at the CUHK. His primary research interests include modern Chinese literature and the history of New Poetry in the 20th century. Additionally, he serves as the executive editor-in-chief of the academic journal New Poetry Review. He has authored several publications, including Waking Up from the Hypnotic World, Towers in the Apartment: Literature and Youth in China in the 1920s, Bakunin’s Hand, New Poetry Collections and the Birth of New Poetry in China, as well as poetry collections like One Day in the Cave and Bird Sutra.