文化消费与小说创作——从《平凡的世界》的阅读调查说起

On Cultural Consumption and Novel Production:A Talk about the Investigation to the Reading of The Common World

依据多份阅读调查资料,证明路遥的《平凡的世界》发行近20年来,已成为市场上的常销书。从接受美学的角度考察这部长篇获得市场认可的内在因素,联系当前的小说创作可得到以下启示:一是作家应有强烈的社会责任感与使命感;二是应有平民情怀,注重表现弱势群体的生活;三是应高举人性化的道德旗帜,净化读者的灵魂;四是应倡导经典的现实主义创作方法;五是应追求雅俗共赏的美学趣味。

Viewed by quite a few investigations, Lu yao＇s The Common World has become one of the best- sellers in the market for the past twenty years since its publication. If the internal factors of its recognition by the market are examined from the perspective of receptive aesthetics in relation to the present novel production, the following revelations may be drawn ： that, first, the writer must be provided with a sense of responsibility and vocation; that, secondly, he/she should have a common people complex, laying stress on the representation of the weak and the feeble; that, thirdly, he/she should hold high the banner of humane morality to purge the soul of the people; that, fourthly, he/she should advocate the classic realist creative method; and that, fifthly, he/she should seek for a aesthetic taste for both the refined and the