《天望》是本世纪以来海外华文文学代表作之一。其别具特色的复调叙事使得作品思想内涵层层深化,以此展现当代许多突出的社会问题。作品在双重时空比较和对人物性格深层结构分析中导向人类生存意义的追问,主人公的诗意人生隐喻着作家希冀的人类命运之拯救方式。 “Heaven” is one of the masterpieces of overseas Chinese literature since the beginning of this century. Its distinctive polyphonic narration has deepened the connotation of the ideological content of works in order to show many prominent contemporary social issues. The work is directed at the question of the meaning of human existence in the dual space-time comparison and the analysis of the deep structure of the character. The heroine’s poetic life metaphorizes the way of saving the human destiny that the writer hopes.