生存和死亡是重大的哲学命题,也是重大的文学命题,不过,迄今为止,中国当代文学中能够以彻底的真诚和勇气直面死亡的作品还不多。现实的小说家多数是探讨生的作家,无论在都市文学还是乡土文学中,主人公都生机勃勃地生活和奋斗着,他们即使陷于悲观,愤懑也仍然指向现实。我们尊敬的作家中,恐怕只有两位曾点燃了自身,以生命为火炬,照亮了我们意识到的生死两界,一位是史铁生,一位是周大新。周大新经历过中年丧子的痛苦,三年后写出《安魂》,这部作品非同寻常,通篇由作者和英年早逝的爱子周宁之间的对话构成——可以想见,在决定写作和开始写作它时,作者流下过多少泪水。 Survival and death are major philosophical propositions and major literary propositions. However, so far, there are not many works in Chinese contemporary literature that can die with complete sincerity and courage. The realistic novelists mostly explore the students’ writers. No matter in urban literature or local literature, the protagonists live and struggle vigorously. Even if they are pessimistic, their anger is still pointing to the reality. Among the revered writers, I am afraid that only two of them have ignited themselves, using life as a torch to illuminate the two circles of life and death we realize, one is Shi Tiesheng and the other is Zhou Daxin. Zhou Daxin has experienced the pain of a middle-aged child, wrote “Requiem” three years later. This work is extraordinary. It consists of the dialogue between the author and Zhou Zi, who passed away in his early years. As you can imagine, How many tears did the author shed when deciding to write and start writing.