The Pessimism In Muxin's And Borges' Short Stories

This paper selects Muxin's collection Bao Bian and Borges' s collection El Aleph as the comparative texts.Through the comparison between their views of life,their views of human fate and their world views in the texts,this paper questions how the different pessimism(Nietzsche's and Schopenhauer's)works in Muxin's and Borges' s writing.In the first chapter,this paper compares Muxin's and Borges' short stories in the pessimistic view of life.Borges achieves the negation of life,based on Schopenhauer's philosophy in his short stories.While influenced by Nietzsche,although Muxin admits the inevitability of death in life,he still affirms the beauty of life by the way of presenting "love".The second chapter compares the differences between Muxin and Borges in the pessimistic view of human fate.Borges presents a complete pessimism about human destiny in his short story Ein deutsche Requiem.He thinks that the violence and its essence,“Will”,is inevitable in the development of human society.Muxin accepts the idea that human-beings as a whole group cannot escape the sufferings in their fate,which can be detected in his short story Yuan Guang.But at the same time Muxin also emphasizes the significance of aesthetic education for human beings' saving.The third chapter compares the difference between Muxin and Borges in the pessimistic world view.Borges,by constructing the world's model of “Aleph”,and by skills of meta-fiction,intentionally blurring its authenticity in the latitude of time,presents his world-views of nothingness.Muxin,through his writing on a pair of lovers who disappeared from “An Empty Room”,emphasizes that the universe destroys life but not the vitality.