笔者解读《前方》的时候,发现此作的艺术思维与作者的身份有着剪不断的关联。1954年出生于江苏盐城农村的曹文轩,于1974年入北京大学中文系读书,应该属于“文革”中的“工农兵大学生”。他凭着自己的努力,毕业后便以优异的学业成绩留校任教。现在是北京大学教授、现当代文学博士生导师。他一方面做学问,著有《中国八十年代文学现象研究》 When I interpret the “front”, I found that there is a constant connection between the artistic thinking and the author’s identity. Cao Wenxuan was born in 1954 in rural Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, and entered the Peking University Department of Chinese Studies in 1974. He should belong to the “Workers, Peasants and Army Students” in the “Cultural Revolution.” With his own efforts, after graduation, he returned to school with outstanding academic records. Now is a professor at Peking University, doctoral tutor of contemporary literature. On the one hand, he made academic studies and wrote “Research on the Phenomenon of Chinese Literature in the 1980s”