一阎真是中国当代少有的具有审痛意识和追求经典书写的作家,他的作品常常聚焦普通知识分子,善于描写社会文明发展进程中人的尴尬处境和生存痛感,表现出作家对人的命运的时刻警醒与深切关怀。在新近推出的长篇小说《活着之上》中,主人公聂志远有着独立的人格,立志以曹雪芹、王阳明这样伟大的灵魂作为人生楷模,希望在历史学研究中有所突破,可残酷的现实让他困惑、郁闷、愤懑和悲苦,究竟是“活下去/活着至上” Yan is a rare contemporary Chinese writer with a sense of pain and the pursuit of classic writing. His works often focus on ordinary intellectuals, being adept at describing the embarrassing situation and pain of survival in the process of social civilization development, showing the writer’s fate for people The moment of vigilance and deep concern. In the recently released novel “On the Living”, the hero Nie Zhiyuan has an independent personality, determined to Cao Xueqin, Wang Yangming such a great soul as a model of life, hoping to make some breakthroughs in the study of history, but cruel reality confused him , Depressed, resentful and sad, what is “living / supreme”