我们现在要探求的不是“根”在哪里,而是“根”是什么。这个“根”本来就是“树”的一部分。我们目前对文学的相关定义只解决了可能性的问题,却疏漏了对其必然性的交代。即使是我们所坚持的马克思主义劳动说,也仍只交代了文学产生的可能性与背景,或者说它只谈论了文学的历史,而缺乏从本源上对文学进行探讨。对于“什么是文学”这个问题,我们也要给予“本质”一个明确清晰的划定。 What we are looking for right now is not where “root” is, but what is “root”. This “root ” is always part of “tree ”. Our current definition of literature only solves the problem of possibility, but omits the explanation of its necessity. Even the Marxist labor we insist on, it still only confesses the possibility and background of literary production, or it only talks about the history of literature, but lacks the exploration of literature from its origin. For the question of what is literature, we must also give a clear and definite delineation of “essence ”.