我们这一代人,在插队或返城待业的那一段日子里,让我们不健全的身心稍稍坚强起来而度过了一个个难关,靠的是读书。我们所读的那些书中,大多数是19世纪的外国文学名著,那些伟大的文学名著,那些伟大的文学家给予我们的更多的不仅仅是文学的教养,而是精神的营养,是他们在那些生活与精神都极度贫瘠的岁月里伴随着我们走了过来,成为了我们精神上的良师益友。我 The days when our families were waiting to be replaced or waiting to be unemployed left us with a hard time trying to build up our unsound mind and body. Most of the books we read were famous foreign literary works of the 19th century. Those great literary works, those great writers, gave us more than literary rearing but spiritual nutrition, In those years in which life and spirit were extremely barren, we came over and became our mentors. I