读《德米安:彷徨少年时》
题名:《德米安:彷徨少年时》
作者:[德] 赫尔曼·黑塞 (1877-1962)
主题:寻找自我,人性
梗概:
《德米安》共有八章,小说讲述的是辛克莱的成长故事,随着辛克莱的逐渐长大,他意识到世界存在着光明和黑暗的两极,而内心世界对黑暗的好奇使他历经了身心煎熬,此时灵魂向导德米安出现,通过他的种种努力,让辛克莱理解和接受人的本性中“恶”的真实存在。
摘抄:
He too was a tempter, he too was a link to the second, the evil world with which I no longer wanted to have anything to do.
他也是一个诱惑者,他也是去往第二个世界的链接,那个我不再想有什么关系邪恶的世界。
It was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld mychildhood which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.Such fissures and rents grow together again, heal and forgotten. But in themost secret recesses, they continue to live and bleed.
这是我童年体验之树的第一道刻痕,要成为自我,每个人最终都要毁灭这棵树。这些裂痕最终会弥合,痊愈和被遗忘。然而在心中最私密的角落里,它们仍然在生长,流血。
I did not exist to write poems, to preach or to paint,neither I nor anyone else. All of that was incidental. Each man had only onegenuine vocation--to find the way to himself. He might end up as poet ormadman, as prophet or criminal--that was not his affair, ultimately it was ofno concern. His task was to discover his own destiny--not an arbitrary one--andlive it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only awould-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of themasses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.
“我常常幻想未来的景象,梦想自己可能会成为的角色,或许是诗人、预言者、画家等等。然而这些都不算什么。我存在的意义并不是为了写诗,预言或作画,任何人生存的意义都不应是这些。这些只是旁枝末节。对每个人而言,真正的职责只有一个:找到自我。无论他的归宿是诗人还是疯子,是先知还是罪犯——这些其实和他无关,毫不重要。他的职责只是找到自己的命运——而不是他人的命运——然后在心中坚守其一生,全心全意,永不停息。所有其它的路都是不完整的,是人的逃避方式,是对大众理想的懦弱回归,是随波逐流,是对内心的恐惧。”
推荐语:
最初接触《德米安》并不是它的书,而是看到了一个关于《德米安》的视频,才决定看这本书。就像这本书的名字一样--“彷徨少年时”,这本书真的适合我们当代青少年阅读。书中有一句话是这么说的,“鸟要挣脱出壳,蛋就是它的世界。人类诞生在这世上,就得摧毁这世界。”从小在家长、老师的保护下,我们一直生活在“光明世界”,但世界并不是只有光明和美好,也存在黑暗与邪恶。《德米安》中辛克莱在德米安的引导下一步步克服生活中的黑暗和诱惑,终于成长。同样,我们要打破原来的自我,正视生活的困难,才能完成从叛逆彷徨到成熟的蜕变。