在现代中国文化和社会生活中,文学所扮演的角色非同一般。在某种特殊状态下,它甚至会以一个“救赎者”的面目出现,承载着世人的全部梦想。想一想“五四运动”天安门广场上的诗歌和杂文的功能,就不难理解这一点。北岛式的“救世主义”色彩的文学,始终是中国人心目中的文学范本。文学在诺贝尔奖坛上的缺席,甚至比其他奖项的缺席来得更令人痛心疾首。它所彰显的不仅是文学和精神文化上的不足,更是被视作当代中国知识分子整体性的精神萎顿的象征。人们对于文学的诉求并不只是在语言艺术方面,政治正义和道德纯洁等方面的使命同样也要求文学来承担。无论是本土传统中的鲁迅,还是诺贝 In modern Chinese culture and social life, literature plays a very different role. In a special state, it even appears as a “Redeemer” that carries all the world’s dreams. Think about the “May Fourth Movement” function of poetry and essays on Tiananmen Square, it is not difficult to understand this. North Island-style “savage” color of literature, has always been the Chinese literary model. The absence of literature at the Nobel Prize even lashed even more than the absence of other prizes. It shows not only the lack of literary and spiritual culture but also the symbol of the spiritual exhaustion of the integrity of contemporary Chinese intellectuals. People’s appeals to literature are not just in terms of language arts. The missions of political justice and moral purity also require literature to undertake. Whether it is the native tradition of Lu Xun, or Nobel