1978年的春天,我开始构思一篇小说。当时从报纸和一些宣传渠道上,我预感到中国文艺要复兴了,要摆脱“八亿人口八个戏”的凋零局面了。所以我在构思小说时还颇有野心,心想不写则罢,要写就写一篇能冲击“四人帮”禁区的东西,以引起文艺界的注意,借此改变自己夹缝中求生存的尴尬命运。这篇两万多字的小说,以《最后的一封信》为题,社会背景是文化大革命,题材是“四人帮”横行时期一对男女青年的爱情悲剧。小说内容大致是这样的:一对 In the spring of 1978, I started to conceptualize a novel. At that time, from the newspapers and some propaganda channels, I foretold that the Chinese literature and art was to be revived to get rid of the withering situation of “eight operas of 800 million people”. So I was quite ambitious when I was thinking of a novel. I wanted to write a piece of paper that would impact the “gang of four” in the forbidden zone so as to arouse the attention of the literary and art circles so as to change the gap between myself and my own. Awkward fate This 20,000-plus-character novel takes the title of “Last Letter,” and its social background is the Cultural Revolution. The theme is the love tragedy of a young man and woman in the rampant period of the “gang of four.” The general content of the novel is this: a pair