我的文集由中华书局以精装版出版发行后,有不少朋友表示遗憾,他们问我,为什么有许多篇很有影响的文章没有收入,我说这是因为我对文学有了新的理解。那就是,文学除了教科书上讲的认识、教育、审美、娱乐、批判等功能外,应该还有一个更加重要的功能,那就是祝福功能。近些年,我收集到了许多事例,证明了这一点。我们村上有两位小伙儿,一同闯世界,一位因犯罪被判八年,另一位因为偶然 Many of my friends expressed regret after my book was published and published in hardcover by Zhonghua Book Company. They asked me why there are many influential articles without income. I say this because I have a new understanding of literature. That is, apart from textbooks, such as knowledge, education, aesthetic, entertainment, criticism and other functions, there should be a more important function of literature, that is, the function of blessing. In recent years, I have collected many examples to prove this. We have two guys in Murakami who went to the world together. One was sentenced to eight years for committing a crime and the other died because of accident.