文学经典是文学传统传承与发展的基石,是我们进行文化思考的真正基础。文学经典在当代的文化论争当中成为一个被过度使用而又语焉不详的概念。本文首先清理文学经典的含义,进而从典范性、原创性、时空的跨越性、意义阐释的开放性四个方面探讨了文学经典的本质特征。 Literary classics is the cornerstone of the traditional inheritance and development of literature and the real basis for our cultural thinking. Literary classics became an overused and absent term in contemporary cultural debates. This paper first clears up the meaning of literary classics, and then explores the essential characteristics of literary classics from four aspects: the model, originality, time span and the openness of meaning interpretation.