王蒙的意义与文学史的立场

Importance of Wang Meng and Standpoint of Literary History

王蒙在当代文学史评价中处境尴尬。著史者往往从抵抗意识出发,指责王蒙新时期创作缺少五四知识分子的独立意识和批判立场,却忽略了作家政治身份的独特性,更没有看到在以政党政治为主体的中国近现代史中,有一批知识分子以理性务实的方式妥善处理了政治信仰和国家认同之间的关系,给政权以切实支持。王蒙是这一谱系中的一员。对他们的选择和成就,应给予更为妥当的评价,而非一味强调五四标准。在新文学及新文学史写作的发轫期,即五四新文化运动及新文学大系的编纂工作中,国家力量参与的缺失是造成这一问题的根源。

Wang Meng is considered as in an awkward predicament in the evaluation of contemporary Chinese literary history. Starting from the consciousness of resistance very often than not, literary historians criticize his lack of independent consciousness and critical position held by intellectuals during the May - forth Movement, but ignore the peculiarity of his political identity, let alone the fact that a group of intellectuals in modern and contemporary history of China of which party politics is its mainstay have properly dealt with the relationship between political belief and national identity, thus offering tangible support to the present power. And Wang is one of them. As for their choice and achievements, more appropriate assessment should be given instead of insisting on the standards of the May - Forth Movement. At the beginning of the New Chinese literature and its literary history writing, namely, in the Movement and the redaction of the major series of the New Chinese literature, to be more specific, the lack of the state force is very cause of this issue.