加林·提哈諾夫是倫敦大學瑪麗女王學院比較文學系喬治·斯坦納講席教授,歐洲科學院院士,國際比較文學理論委員會榮譽主席,是比較文學和思想史研究領域的領軍學者。本文作者在倫敦大學瑪麗女王學院訪學期間,對提哈諾夫教授進行了面對面的學術專訪,訪談內容主要涉及世界文學、流亡主題文學和世界主義等重要論題。提哈諾夫教授從巴赫金的獨特性和當代性入手,分析了巴赫金與當代文學理論之間的關系;闡釋了世界文學與比較文學研究中流亡主題書寫的必要性和重要性,認為流亡主題文學可以使我們超越國別文學的界限;分析了世界文學的定義以及地域文學對世界文學的意義,提出了打破世界文學歐美中心論的觀點;探討了世界主義的概念及其對世界文學研究的促進作用。

Galin Tihanov is George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, the member of Academia Europaea and Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, who is a major scholar in the fields of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. Song Baomei, associate professor from Northeast Agricultural University, interviewed Professor Tihanov when working as a visiting scholar at Queen Mary, University of London. This interview encapsulates Professor Tihanov’s view on world literature, exile and Cosmopolitanism. Beginning with the features that differentiate Bakhtin from other contemporary currents of literary and cultural theory and his relevance to the twenty-first century, Professor Tihanov makes thought-provoking remarks on the issues on the necessity and importance of exile and exilic writing for world literature and comparative literature, believing that the prism of exile allows us to go beyond the constrains of national literature, the concept of world literature and how the regional literature fits into the dynamic of redefining of the concept as well as his view on the Euro-American idea of wold literature, and finally the concept of cosmopolitanism and its relationship with the study of world literature.