1991年第2期的《外国文学评论》刊登了曾艳兵同志的文章《当代文学鉴赏的困惑——论艾略特的<荒原>》(以下简称《困惑》)。文章通过评析国内外各家评论《荒原》的观点,试图解开鉴赏《荒原》之谜,提出自己对《荒原》的解读,由此论及当前我们对当代文学鉴赏应当如何走出困惑的问题。概括起来,曾文(曾艳兵同志的文章,以 The Foreign Literary Criticism, No. 2, 1991, published Comrade Zeng Yanbing’s article, Puzzlement in Contemporary Literary Appreciation - On Eliot’s “Wasteland” (hereinafter referred to as “Confusion”). By analyzing the opinions of various critics at home and abroad, this article tries to solve the mystery of “wasteland” and put forward my own interpretation of “the wasteland”, and then discusses the current problem of how our appreciation of contemporary literature should come out of confusion. To sum up, Tseng Wen (Comrade Zeng Yanbing’s article