新世纪,在我看来,与新时期这个词可以是等义的。对于相当多数的当代中国人来说,真正的新生活是从20世纪70年代末、80年代初开始的:而对于与生活世界紧密相关的文学来说,取那个时间作为一块界碑,也应该是完全合适的。现在我们都非常警惕将文学的分期与政治的分期混为一谈,可是有时候我们是无可奈何的。当政治意识形态一统天下。政治生活成了一个社会的人们的惟一生活形式时,一切便都和政治绑在了一块,分期自然也不容易例外。20世纪最后20年,作为一个特殊的时段,对于政治,对于人们的生活,和对于文学,事实上没法不具有某种一致性。但可以想象,随着政治意识形态一 The new century, in my opinion, can be synonymous with the term new era. For a considerable number of contemporary Chinese, the real new life begins in the late 1970s and early 1980s: for the literature closely related to the life world, taking that time as a boundary monument should also be Completely suitable Now we are very wary of conflating the stages of literature with the stages of politics, but sometimes we are helpless. When political ideology is unified. When political life becomes the only form of life for a society, everything is tied to politics, and it is not easy to separate by stages. In the last 20 years of the 20th century, as a special time period, there is virtually no agreement about politics, for people’s lives, or for literature. But it is conceivable that with political ideology one