新世纪,应该意味着新的希望。可事实上,我们在文学思潮中没有看到呼唤希望的作品。上个世纪末曾经拨动过文坛心弦的理想主义思潮(以张承志的《心灵史》、史铁生的《务虚笔记》为代表)很快归于沉寂。新世纪伊始一度高涨的缅怀战争年代浪漫激情的思潮(例如都梁的《亮剑》、邓一光的《我是我的神》)常常是以悲剧结束的。还有那股引起过热烈争鸣的“底层关怀”的思潮(例如陈应松的《马嘶岭血案》、阎连科的 The new century should mean new hope. In fact, we did not see the works calling for hope in the literary trend of thought. The ideological trend of idealism (represented by Zhang Chengzhi’s “Spiritual History” and Shi Tiesheng’s “Mantra Notes”) that had touched the hearts of the literary world at the end of the last century quickly came to silence. At the beginning of the new century, the memory of the romantic trend of passion in the war years (such as Duliang’s Sword and Deng’s “I am my god”) often ended in tragedy. There is also the over-heated debate about “bottom-care” ideology (such as Chen Yingsong’s “Ma Ziling Blood Case,” Yan Lianke’s