没有思想的思想家

• 作 者: 朱也旷
• 出 处: 读书
• 发表日期: 2003年06期
• 关键词: 巴扎洛夫 萨哈林岛 文学生涯 精神危机 批评界 索尔仁尼琴 尼古拉 阿赫玛托娃 陀思妥耶夫斯基 田大畏

一八八九年,契诃夫遭遇了一场前所未有的精神危机。批评界对《没有意思的故事》等杰作的误解,心怀嫉妒的文人同行的诋毁,哥哥尼古拉的病逝,两个剧本的失败等等,这一切都深深刺痛了他。这年年底,一直文思如涌的契诃夫做出一个重大决定:暂时告别已取得相当成功的文学生涯,去遥远的萨哈林岛直面真正的苦难,深入了解岛上苦役犯们的生活。

In 1889, Chekhov suffered an unprecedented mental crisis. His misunderstanding of such masterpieces as “Stupid Story”, the slander of jealous literary colleagues, the death of his brother Nicolae, the failure of two plays and so on, all deeply hurt him. At the end of the year, Chekov, who has been making a frenzied speech, made a major decision: Temporarily bid farewell to the successful literary career that has been achieved, to go to the remote Sakhalin Island to face the real suffering and to gain a deeper understanding of the lives of hard-line offenders on the island.