刘继明的《人境》是一部非常重要和特殊的书。正如陈福民先生在《人境》研讨会上所说,对于新时期文学来说,有没有这本书很不一样,有这本书,新时期文学要丰富一些,没有这本书,则要单调许多。《人境》有一个很大的野心,就是试图重新书写新时期以来的历史,对这段历史做一个总体的评价。相比上世纪80年代以来重写20世纪历史或者当代史的长篇小说,《人境》有两个突出特点,一是反思历史的历史感,通过对上 Liu Jiming’s “Habitat” is a very important and special book. As Chen Fumin said at the seminar “Human Settlements”, for the new period literature, is there any difference between this book, this book, the new period literature should be rich in some, without this book, we must monotonous a lot of. There is a great ambition in Habitat to try to re-write the history since the new era and make an overall assessment of the history. Compared with the rewriting of twentieth-century history or contemporary history novels since the 1980s, “Habitat for Humanity” has two salient features. One is to reflect on the historical sense of history,