新世纪以来,文学批评遭遇到异样的困境:市场化、体制化和学院化的合力不仅从外部弱化了文学批评的力量,而且从内部扼杀着批评的生命力。在这样内外交困的现实境遇中,文学批评若想获得自身的存在感,避免被忽视的命运,只有一途:依旧坚持文学批评的理想,探索出理想化的文学批评写作样式。在这个意义上,陈福民的文学论集《批评与阅读的力量》值得被认真关注。一依据本书后记,我们得知:本书的文章几乎全部写于新世纪语境下,是他对 Since the beginning of the new century, literary criticism has encountered a strange predicament: the combined forces of marketization, institutionalization and academicization have not only weakened the power of literary criticism from the outside but also stifled the vitality of criticism internally. In such a real situation of internal and external difficulties, if the literary criticism wants to gain a sense of its own existence and avoid the neglected fate, there is only one way: still insist on the ideal of literary criticism and explore the writing style of idealized literary criticism. In this sense, Chen Fumin’s literary discourse, “The Power of Criticism and Reading,” merits serious attention. According to the postscript of this book, we learned that: This book is almost entirely written in the context of the new century,