从《骡子和金子》说起陈实(以下简称陈):今天我提议谈一个话题,“现实主义与文化自信”。这个话题的起因,是从罗宏新近创作的小说《骡子和金子》,以及由这部小说所引发的系列文化现象说起的。我感觉到,我们广东,至少是文学理论界、文学评论界,对于这样一个创作现象,以及这现象所隐含的某种趋势,不够敏感,没有从理论上来认识它。《骡子和金子》的热度,在广东似乎还不如在江苏、浙江,他们是小说一出来就知道了,就给予高度重视,我们这里实际上是不太重视的。《骡子和金子》这个小说出来以后,第一,它在读者和阅读市场上受欢迎的程度,其实反映了一种新 Speaking from “Mule and Gold,” Chen Shi (hereinafter referred to as Chen): Today I propose to talk about a topic, “Realism and Cultural Confidence.” The origin of this topic is from the novel “Mule and Gold” by Luo Hong and the series of cultural phenomena triggered by this novel. I feel that we in Guangdong, at least in literary theory circles and literary critics circles, are not sensitive enough to such a creative phenomenon and some trend implied by this phenomenon, nor do we know it theoretically. The popularity of “mules and gold” in Guangdong does not seem to be as good as that in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. When they came to know the novel, they paid great attention to what we actually did not pay much attention to here. After the novel Mule and Gold came out, firstly, its popularity in the reader and reading market actually reflected a new