一卡夫卡的《邻村》1是一个奇妙的文体。它像来自一次对话,是叙述者对其祖父一段话的记录。同时,它像一个故事,呈献出一个乡村、一个骑者、一个侃侃而谈的祖父的形象,但又如此浓缩(就像故事中的祖父所说的“浓缩”),以致里面的东西几乎难以化开。当然,它也应当是一个寓言,就像卡夫卡其他的“短篇小说”。它如此的简短,以致可以把全篇收录如下:我的祖父常说:“生命非常之短。我现在想起,生命对我来说正在凝结,以致我几乎 A Kafka’s ”neighboring village“ 1 is a fantastic style. It is like a dialogue, a narrator’s account of his grandfather’s passage. At the same time, it’s like a story, presenting the image of a country, a rider, a talkative grandfather, but concentrated so much (as the grandfather in the story calls ”concentration“) that things Almost difficult to open. Of course, it should also be a parable, like Kafka’s other ”short stories.“ It is so brief that I can include the whole article as follows: My grandfather often says: ”Life is very short, and I now remember that life is setting for me so that I almost