在现时代,文学是什么?文学还能做什么?文学还应该做什么?本文从作者自身经历出发,对文学的意义功能及作家的社会责任做出了个性化和独特性的阐释:在物质化和利益化的“小时代”里,作家即便当不了太阳,也要当一只萤火虫发出微弱的光,在黑暗中引导人们温暖地回忆和向往。 In the present age, what is literature? What can literature do? What should literature do? Based on the author’s own experience, this essay makes a personalized and unique explanation of the meaning and function of literature and the social responsibility of writers: In the “Little Era” where the writer can not afford the sun, he also needs to be a firefly that emits faint light, guiding people to warmly remember and yearn for the darkness.