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

摘要： 疾病对生命的长期威胁,致使史铁生的散文写作多重于探索存在之思与拯救之道,因而打上了浓厚的存在主义烙印。这种存在主义诗学倾向体现在写作观念上,主要是把写作当成生存意义追寻的过程、视写作为面对存在困境的感悟和思索,以及将写作与存在同一化等。其表现母题如畏惧、疑难、无聊、残缺、虚无等,与存在主义高度契合,而其拯救方式,如以不断的言行显现存在、以过程主义抗争宿命、以言语沟通克服主体间的疏离等,亦与存在主义一一合拍。与存在之思相适应,史铁生的絮语式文字,不论是随笔、札记,还是序跋、通信,甚或一些诗剧、小说,也就产生了特殊的意味：既是对“在”的显现,也是对“不在”的抗争,具有强烈的本体性特质。

关键词: 史铁生, 絮语体散文, 存在主义, 本体性