《母亲是条河》算不上是阎连科最优秀的作品,但它准确表达了作者的创作思想。作为一个出身农民的作家,对乡村苦难生活的描写是他小说中挥之不去的梦魇,不仅体现在物质条件的贫乏,更是表现在不可预测的悲苦命运上。逐权夺利也是阎连科惯用的小说内容,这是他笔下农民改变人生孜孜以求的手段。逃离乡土是生活的无奈,但回归家园更是命运的使然,面对作者深爱着的土地,阎连科爱恨交加。 “Mother is a river” is not the best Yan Lianke works, but it accurately expressed the author’s creative thinking. As a writer of a farmer, the depiction of misery life in the country is a lingering nightmare in his novels, not only reflected in the pauper material conditions, but also in the unpredictable and tragic fate. It is also the usual novel content of Yan Lianke, which is the means by which peasants make a difference in their lives to change their life. Escape from the native land is the helplessness of life, but the return to their homes is destiny, in the face of the author’s love of the land, Yan Lianke love and hate.