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档案工作者历来是默默无闻的,这不论是在中国还在西方都是如此。就以美国小说而论,不论在哪一类小说中,以档案工作者为主人公的一直是寥若晨星。然而近几年来,美国小说界出现了新动向,相继出版了好几部以档案工作者为主人公的小说。这些小说的作者(有的本人曾从事档案工作),间接地向社会宣传了档案工作的重要性。就笔者所见有这样几部以档案工作者为主人公的小说: 一部题名《莱维茨赞歌》的科学幻想小说,描绘了一场经过核战争后600年的美国生活。这场战争几乎摧毁了文明世界。这时出现了一个专门保存这个遭难的文明世界“大事记”的修士会。几世纪后世界进入复兴时期,一些世俗的学者要把“大事记”从修道院迁运到知识分子集中的新罗马去,但保管“大事记”
Archivists have traditionally been obscure, whether in China or in the West. As far as the American novels are concerned, no matter in what type of novels, the archivist has always been a star of the moon. However, in recent years, there has been a new trend in the American novel community, and several publications have been published successively featuring archivists as their main characters. The authors of these novels, some of whom had engaged in archival work, indirectly promoted the importance of archival work to the public. As far as I can see, there are several fictions written by archivists: a sci-fi novel titled Levitz hymn, depicting a U.S. life of 600 years after the nuclear war. This war almost destroyed the civilized world. There was a monk meeting dedicated to the “Memorabilia” of the civilized world of this tragedy. Centuries later, the world entered a period of rejuvenation. Some secular scholars relocated the Memorabilia from the monastery to the new concentration of intellectuals in Rome, but kept “Memorabilia”