《文学的邀约》是一部从整体上“反思现代性”进而寻找文学新生的著作。格非运用福柯、韦伯、浪漫主义美学、现代语言学、中西文学传统等思想文化资源,清理了18世纪以来现代文学观念中的成规,重新理解传统文学资源,呼唤“真正意义上文学”。“现代文学的终结”这一观念并非对文学沦落的悲悼,更是一种望其速朽进而涅槃的冲动。 “The solicitation of literature” is a book that “looks at modernity” in its entirety and searches for a freshman in literature. Ge Fei used such ideological and cultural resources as Foucault, Weber, romantic aesthetics, modern linguistics, and Chinese and Western literary traditions to clean up the conventions of modern literary concepts since the 18th century, to re-understand the traditional literary resources and to call for “real literary ”. The notion of “the end of modern literature” is not a mere mourning for the decline of literature, but rather an impulse to look forward to its rapid infancy and nirvana.