荒誕世界與本真的追求──論王定國《昨日雨水》審判書寫的救贖意義

The World of Absurdity and the Quest for Truth: On the Redemptive Meaning of Wang Dingguo's‘Yesterday's Rain’in Judgement Writing

在法律文學中，常常涉及到道德審判和期盼正義的議題，在這些情境下，自我救贖的意義顯得尤為重要，描繪和探索這種道德困境以及自我救贖的意義，不僅可以豐富作品的內涵，也有助於吾人者對司法正義和道德議題的思考。
王定國《昨日雨水》在題材上是一部長篇法界小說，雖無法庭中言詞辯論的硝煙滾滾、刺刀見紅，但確實是關乎生死、榮辱、名利、成敗、得失的短兵相接。王定國通過法界生態的描寫，揭示隱匿於表層形象下的人性面貌與社會中的灰色地帶，試圖理清法與情、正義與愛之間的競技關係。書中三位角色──敘述者「我」、名牌律師柳蔭龍、文琦皆以不同的救贖姿態對抗荒謬的世界，即使他們以不同方式與現實對峙，但都是在守護內心最「本真」純粹的角落。
本文主要分析《昨日雨水》中的救贖意蘊，從角色的自我突圍、自我實現中尋找生存的意義，於生活的悖理中挖掘出本真的價值。由此可見，通過人的反抗來守護公平與正義，讓法律和人性得到真正的平衡，這也許就是法律文學與審判書寫所追尋的真正意義。

In legal literature, issues of moral judgement and expectation of justice are often involved, and the meaning of self-redemption is particularly important in these situations. Depicting and exploring such moral dilemmas as well as the meaning of self-redemption not only enriches the content of the work, but also helps to stimulate readers to think about the issues of judicial justice and morality.
Wang Dingguo's‘Yesterday's Rain’is a long novel about the legal profession. There is no smoke and no bayonets, but it is indeed a short fight about life and death, honour and disgrace, fame and fortune, victory and defeat, gain and loss. Through the depiction of the ecology of the legal world, Wang Dingguo reveals the human nature and the grey areas of the society hidden under the surface image, and tries to clarify the competitive relationship between law and emotion, justice and love. The three characters in the book, the narrator‘I’, the lawyer Liu Yinlong, and Wen Qi, all confront the absurd world with different postures. Even though they confront the reality in different ways, they are all protecting the innermost corners of their hearts. This article mainly analyses the meaning of redemption in Yesterday's Rain, looking for the meaning of survival from the characters' self-expression and self-realisation, and digging out the true value in the paradoxes of life. From this, we can see that through human resistance to protect fairness and justice, so that the law and human nature to get a true balance, which may be the real meaning of legal writing to pursue.