《黄金时代》是一篇知青小说,也是王小波的成名作和代表作。在中国文学圈,有“知青文学”一说。这一提法始于1983年,当时出现了一个知青作家群,他们都是文化大革命期间的下乡知识青年,以写知青生活题材的作品而得此名,如梁晓声、韩少功、张承志、史铁生等。“知青”是文化大革命时期的产物,它是“文革”期间被“唤醒”了强烈“革命热情”的青年(红卫兵)们在“闹革命”的过程中致使国家工厂停工、学校停课、人与人对立、社会瘫痪的情况下被下放、分流到农村的产物。一批怀着强烈革命热情、带着崇高的共产主义革命理想的青年们,在中国广阔的农村里并没 “Golden Age” is an educated youth novel, is also a famous masterpiece and masterpiece of Wang Xiaobo. In Chinese literary circles, there is a saying of “educated youth literature”. This reference began in 1983, when a group of educated youth appeared, all of whom were young intellectuals who came to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. They came from the works written on the subject of educated youth, such as Liang Xiaosheng, Han Shaogong, Zhang Chengzhi and Shi Tiesheng Wait. The “educated youth” is the product of the “Cultural Revolution”. It is the process of “revolutionizing” the youth (Red Guards) who were “awakened” by the “Cultural Revolution” during the Cultural Revolution Which led to the suspension of state factories, suspension of classes in schools, confrontation between people and social paralysis, and the diversion to rural areas. A group of young people with strong revolutionary enthusiasm and lofty communist revolutionary ideals did not find themselves in the vast countryside of China