丁玲短篇小说《水》,于1931年9月始刊于《北斗》创刊号,至11月在该刊连载完毕。这篇小说得到作者本人和左翼评论界的高度重视。丁玲后来把它看做是自己“新作风的第一篇小说”(1),自认它在“有意识地要到群众中去描写群众,要写革命者,要写工农”方面取得了“突破”(2)。当时,左翼评论家不但指出了 Ding Ling’s short story “Water” was first published in the first issue of Beidou in September 1931 and serialized in November. The novel is highly regarded by the author and the left-wing critics. Ding Ling later regarded it as his own novel “The First Novel of New Style” (1), admitting that it was “consciously going to the masses to describe the masses, write revolutionaries, and write workers and peasants” Made a “breakthrough” (2). At that time, left-wing critics not only pointed out