我常常固执地认为:一个作家是有责任的,他的责任往往体现在其作品之中,作家的内心是自己的,但作品却是社会的,须得对社会负责。从这个角度来说,常君显然是一个极具社会责任感的作家。小说描绘了一幅幅居住在“夕照街17号”的留守老人们的日常生活画面,触及到了当前一个非常严峻的社会问题——空巢老人。正如常君在小说中描述的那样,这是一群可敬可爱的人,但更多的却是一群可悲可叹的人。他们常年离群独居,子女远在他乡,以 I often stubbornly believe that: a writer is responsible, his responsibility is often reflected in his works, the writer’s own heart, but the work is social, must be responsible for the community. From this perspective, Chang Jun is obviously a very socially responsible writer. The novel portrays a picture of the daily lives of left-behind old people living in “Sunset Street No. 17” and touches on one of the most serious social problems now - empty-nesters. As Chang Jun described in the novel, this is a group of respectable and lovely people, but more is a group of lamentable people. They live alone for years and their children are far away from home