《在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话》作为一部马克思主义基本原理与中国具体的文艺实践相结合的典范文献,以其深远的历史作用和丰富的思想内涵而被人们不断地阐释和研究。从其发表到新中国建立直至“文革”结束,《讲话》一直被当成文艺界遵循的唯一指针,甚至被一些人“神化”“圣化”和极端政治化。而新时期以来,作为对“文革”时期的极左思想的反拨,一些人开始站在启蒙的立场对其进行质疑甚至排斥。时值《讲话》发表69周年,我们试图以开放和发展的眼光把其放在马克思主义文论、中国古代文论和西方文论这多元文化参照系中来对其进行理性地审视,做出客观的实事求是的评价。这就是我们编发这几篇文章的初衷。此外加上一篇对新世纪(即21世纪)以来研究《讲话》的综述,以帮助人们了解近10年来这一问题研究的概况与走向。 As an exemplary document combining the basic tenets of Marxism with the specific literary practices in China, “The Speech at the Yan’an Literary Symposium” has been continuously interpreted and researched by people with its profound historical role and rich ideological connotation. From its publication to the founding of New China until the end of the “Cultural Revolution”, “speech” has always been regarded as the only guideline followed by literary and art circles, and even some people have been “deified” and “sanctified” and become extremely politicized. Since the new period, some people began to stand in the position of enlightenment to challenge or even reject it as a counter-call to the ultra-leftist thought during the “Cultural Revolution.” At the 69th anniversary of the publication of the “Speech,” we tried to rationally examine and make a rational review of Marxist literary theory, ancient Chinese literary theory and western literary theory in a multicultural reference frame from an open and development perspective Objective and realistic evaluation. This is our original intention to compile these few articles. In addition, a review of the “speech” of the study since the new century (ie the 21st century) has been added to help people understand the general situation and trend of the research on this issue in the past decade.