SỰ KHAI MỞ CHÂN LÝ VÀ NHỮNG TRUNG GIAN CỦA HIỆN HỮU TRONG NHÀ ẢO THUẬT TRÊN CẦU BỘ HÀNH CỦA WU MING-YI

Abstract

This article proposes an interpretive approach to Wu Ming-Yi’s short story collection The Magician on the Skywalk through the category of Truth in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, particularly via the concepts of unconcealment of truth (aletheia), concealment, and mediation. Rather than understanding truth as a correspondence between event and statement, the study elucidates the process through which truth emerges and ultimately collapses within the lived experiences of the characters. It further argues that judgments of truth in the work always remain provisional and hypothetical. On this basis, the article advances three interpretive propositions: (1) truth in the text does not assume a universal status but remains contingent and unstable; (2) truth operates as a mediated process in which unconcealment and concealment occur simultaneously within the structure of the characters’ experience; (3) the element of the marvelous is not merely an aesthetic device but also expresses the subject’s mode of perceiving and apprehending the world, particularly within urban life. In doing so, the article contributes to identifying the dynamic structure of truth in contemporary narrative as a process continually challenged by the very conditions of human existence.