2 0 0 2年 4月 ,著名外国文学研究家许汝祉先生因病逝世。许先生生前是南京师范大学教授 ,全国高校外国文学教学研究会副会长 ,也是本刊的经常作者。值此许先生逝世一周年之际 ,本刊邀请几位外国文学研究界的朋友和本刊编辑 ,举办这次笔谈 ,缅怀许汝祉先生为我国的外国文学研究事业做出的卓越贡献。 In April 2002, Mr. Xu Ruzhi, a famous foreign literary researcher, died of illness. Mr. Xu was a professor at Nanjing Normal University during his lifetime, and vice president of the National Association of Foreign Literature Teaching and Research, and is also the frequent author of this publication. On the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Mr. Xu, the journal invited a few friends of the foreign literary research community and editors of this magazine to hold this writing and to cherish the memory of Mr. Xu Ruzhi’s outstanding contributions to our country’s foreign literature research.