关键词: 史铁生, 絮语体散文, 存在主义, 本体性

Abstract: The persistent threat of illness and mortality has led Shi Tiesheng's prose to concentrate intensely on exploring existential reflections and paths to salvation, thereby imprinting his work with a profound existentialist character. This existentialist poetic tendency manifests in his writing philosophy primarily through treating writing as a process of searching for life's meaning, viewing it as a form of reflection and meditation on the predicaments of existence, and identifying writing with being itself. His recurrent thematic motifs, such as fear, doubt, boredom, lack, and nothingness, closely align with existentialist concerns. Likewise, his approaches to salvation, including the continual affirmation of existence through word and deed, resistance to fate through a philosophy of process, and overcoming alienation between subjects through communication, remarkably correspond with existentialist thought. In harmony with this existential framework, Shi Tiesheng's discursive prose style, whether in essays, notes, prefaces, letters, or even certain plays and novels, takes on a distinctive significance: it serves both as an expression of “being” and a struggle against “non-being,” imbuing his writing with a strong ontological quality.

Key words: Shi Tiesheng, chat-style prose, existentialism, ontological nature