Nonnulla pars inventionis est nosse quid quaeras.一如果我们依然像歌德所做的那样,将“世界文学”(Weltliteratur)这个词同时指向过去和未来的话,那么现在是时候追问这个词到底还能有什么意义了。作为世界文学的场域,我们的星球并不仅仅意味着一般意义上的普遍与人性;而且,地球将人性看作是它的成员之间富有成果的交流的产物。世界文学有一个福祸相依的预设(felix culpa):即人类按照不同的文 If we still refer to the past and the future as the Goethe word for “world literature” (Weltliteratur), then it is time to question what the word can actually do Meaningful. As a field of world literature, our planet does not mean just universal and human in the general sense; moreover, the Earth sees human nature as a product of fruitful communication among its members. World literature has a felix culpa: that humans follow different passages