每当和青年朋友谈起读书时,我总要向他们讲述著名作家周立波的一段往事。 那是40多年前,我刚从大学毕业,来到长沙市一家文艺刊物当编辑。“大跃进”的高潮那时刚过去不久,极“左”之风仍然弥漫城乡,编辑部收到的来稿也多打着“左”的烙印。为了澄清青年作者中的混乱思想,编辑部决定办一期读书班,请几位在湘的老作家和文艺界的领导来讲课。周立波是著名作家,又是当时湖南省文联的主席,第一讲自然非他莫属。听说他正在长沙,我骑着自行车来到北门外麻园岭,冒昧地叩开了一幢旧式公馆油漆斑驳的大门。保姆开门后,进屋作了通 Whenever I talk about reading with young friends, I always tell them a story about the famous writer Zhou Libo. It was 40 years ago, I just graduated from college, came to Changsha, a literary publication editor. Shortly after the “Great Leap Forward” climax, the polemic of “leftist” still filled the urban and rural areas. The contributions received by the editorial department were also branded “leftist.” In order to clarify the confusion among young writers, the editorial office decided to run a reading class and invited several leading writers in Hunan and leaders of the literary and art circles to give lectures. Zhou Libo is a famous writer, and was chairman of Hunan Literary Federation at the time. I heard he was in Changsha, I rode a bicycle outside the north gate Ma Ling Ridge, presumptuously knocked open the door of an old mansion variegated paint. After the nanny opened the door, she went in