小说家新井纪一为日本劳动文学的代表作家,其作品因大量描写劳动者的实际生活而广为人知。新井纪一于大正九年(1920年)创作的小说《矿工之梦》不仅是作家本人的代表作,更是研究日本劳动文学一个不可忽视的文本素材。本文将主要探讨《矿工之梦》是如何体现其劳动文学特质的。 Novelist Araiichi Ichihara is the representative writer of Japanese labor literature, whose work is widely known because of a great deal of description of the actual life of laborers. The novel “Miner’s Dream”, written by Shinsaicho Arai in the 1920s, is not only a masterpiece of the writer himself but also a non-negligible textual material for studying Japanese labor literature. This article will mainly discuss how the “Miner’s Dream” embodies its labor literary qualities.