生存还是死亡——信息技术时代文学的生存现状与未来

Today and Future of Literature in the Age of Information and Technology

手机和网络等信息技术的普及严重影响了传统文学的生存方式。不管是在创作、发行还是在阅读接受上,今天的文学都与以往人们熟悉的形式有了很大不同。作者与读者间的身份界限日渐消解,审美趣味日益通俗化,体裁也变得越来越随意。文学大有解构自身、走向文学日常生活化的趋势,有关文学终结的话题由此而来。总的说来,信息技术对文学意味着一场深刻的美学革命,文学话语的平民化、民主化时代即将到来。

The information technology,such as the mobile phone and the Internet,has greatly influenced the modes of existence of literature,whose means of creating,publishing and reading becomes sharply different from the previous ones.The demarcation between writing and reading is fading,the aesthetic interest becoming more and more popular,and the literary genre being destroyed and invented at will.It seems that literature is deconstructing itself,hence the debate on the death of literature becomes hot in recent years.But generally speaking,information technology will be a far-reaching aesthetic revolution for literature,which may mean the soon arrival of an age of popularized and democratized literary discourse.