精神救赎:“底层文学”的主题开掘向度

National Spirit Construction——The Present Duty of Grassroot Literature

新世纪以来,"底层文学"以一种直面社会现实、积极干预社会生活的姿态带来了文学主题的新突破,找回文学关注现实、推进社会变革的社会性价值。然而,"底层文学"对社会底层的观照,大多只是停留在对底层苦难生活和艰难处境的道德性同情之上,很少涉及对底层社会精神世界的展示和批判。即使有些作家开始涉及这一主题,但是,他们的作品多是对底层人性中存在的劣根性的批判,没有真正书写当下社会应该建立什么样的理想精神价值。抒写底层社会美好的精神理想,更深层面的实现文学的精神救赎价值,应该成为底层文学最重要的关注点,实现精神救赎价值仍是底层文学重要的主题开掘向度。

Since the beginning of the 21th century,grassroot literature has brought in a new breakthrough of literature theme in the form of facing society directly and taking part in the social revolution actively.It returns to its social values that literature should care about reality and promote social change.Grassroot literature,concerning about the low-rank people’s lives,indicates the literature’s affinity to the people which determines grassroot literature’s position and becomes its fundamental spirit and moral basis.Grassroot literature,reestablishing realism,leads the new directions of literature and art.And realistic criticism becomes the main creative method of grassroot literature.Grassroot literature not only presents the moral concerning about the low-rank people’s suffering circumstances,but also touches the description and criticism of the low-rank people’s spirits.It highlights the value of spiritual salvation in literary theme.However,the strength of excavating its theme is insufficient,especially there is a long way to go in guiding the low-rank people’s spirit construction.National spirit building and realization of the value of spiritual salvation keep being the present duties of grassroot literature.