钱锺书的一生志业,在文学。然此文学,并非当今从业者多自轻之文学,而是人类心灵基本要求之文学。举凡孔门四科(德行、政事、文学、言语),乃至西方自由七艺(语法,修辞,逻辑,算术,音乐,几何,天文),其中,四科之文学,七艺之修辞,究其内容与钱氏心念之文学并不全然吻合,却堪为其基础,唯有以此基础观之,文学方成为广大精微之文学,而钱氏,才可还原为精诚笃实之钱氏。钱锺书晚年曾有言,“我的视野很窄,只局限于文学”(《钟叔河<走向世界>序》), Qian Zhong book career, in literature. However, this literature is not the literature more contemporary practitioners prefer, but the basic requirement of human mind literature. The four branches of Confucianism (morality, politics, literature, speech), and even the Western Free Seven Arts (grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy), of which four subjects of literature, The content is not totally consistent with the literature of Qian’s thoughts, but it is worthy of foundation. Only on the basis of this foundation can literature become the most subtle literature, and Qian can be restored as sincere and honest money. Qian Zhongshu had remark in his later years, “My vision is very narrow, it is only limited to literature.” (“Shu Shuquan”),