茅盾、周扬、夏衍、阳翰笙是中国文坛上现今健在的四位元老。他们的事业和名字,是和中国半个世纪以来的文艺运动紧紧地联系在一起的。在粉碎“四人帮”以后,中国的文学艺术正在复兴。在中国文学艺术工作者第四次代表大会召开的前夕,本刊负责人艾培、刘珙、吴佟、沈苏儒和记者一起访问了他们,请他们就中国当今文艺界的情况和问题发表自己的看法。下面是他们谈话的记录。 Mao Dun, Zhou Yang, Xia Yan and Yang Hansheng are the four elders who are now alive in the Chinese literary world. Their cause and name are closely linked with the literary movement in China for half a century. After the smashing of the “Gang of Four,” China’s literature and art is reviving. On the eve of the Fourth Congress of Chinese Literary and Art Workers, writers such as Ai Pei, Liu Xie, Wu Tong and Shen Suru visited the journalists and asked them to make their own statements on the current situation and problems of Chinese literary and art circles view. Here is the record of their conversation.