论约翰生在《塞维奇传》中的移情和同情

莫洛亚认为传记是一种表现的手段，传记家选择传主是为了迎合他自己本性中的秘密需要。艾德尔认为莫洛亚的说法就是移情，而传记家要避免移情，应当对他的传主给予更多的同情。然而，在约翰生的《塞维奇传》中，既有约翰生站在自己的立场，把自己的情感投入传主塞维奇，通过传主来表述自己的移情成分，也有约翰生站在传主塞维奇的立场，设身处地为他着想，更深入地理解他的同情。

On Samuel Johnson's Empathy and Sympathy in the Life of Savage

Andre Maurois considered biography as a means of expression, and the biographer chose his subject in order to respond to a secret need in his/her own nature. Leon Edel thought empathy was exactly what Maurois was saying, while a biographer should avoid empathy and must be more sympathetic than empathic. However, in Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, there was a certain quantity of empathy which Samuel Johnson identified with his subject Richard Savage and expressed his own feelings. Meanwhile, there was also ...