如何面对已有的大师,永远是后学者最恐惧的“影响的焦虑”。影响永远都在,但焦虑却未必,因为有些先贤我们确实只能高山仰止,而无法迫近他们的背影。想明白这一点,那些大师就成了群山,我们则是背着他们的著作行走的旅人。在我的视野里,群山中最高的那一座,是托尔斯泰,而且不是之一。然而我对他和他作品的认知,却有一个漫长而循序渐进的过程。初读大学时,看了老师们列的必读书目,我曾尝试进入他的作品,但自我的浅薄和书中拗口的外国人名让我难以读完,它 How to deal with the existing masters will always be the most fearful post-scholar “anxiety ”. The effects are always there, but anxiety is not always possible because some of the savants really can only stand tall and can not approach their backs. To understand this, those masters become mountains, and we are travelers who carry their writings. In my opinion, the highest of the mountains is Tolstoy, and not one of them. However, my understanding of him and his work has a long and gradual process. When I was first enrolled in college, I read the list of required readings of the teachers. I tried to enter his works, but I was hard to read because of my superficiality and the mouthful of foreigners in the book