城乡生活质量的“进”与“退”——评邵丽的长篇小说《我的生活质量》

“Ups and Downs”of quality in urban and rural life:The comments of SHAO Li's novel My Quality of Life

《我的生活质量》是一部关于乡下人进城的奋斗史。主人公王祈隆和妻子许彩霞进城成功,身份的改变却难以跨越城乡之间的文化鸿沟。他们不得不在物质之城与精神之城的进退两难中艰难突围。邵丽正是结合当下城与乡融合的矛盾冲突,揭示了当下普遍存在的生存困境,以自己悲悯的情怀去反思现实,并积极地思考中国在现代化进程中的出路。

My Quality of Lifeis a history about peasants＇ struggling in the city.The hero WANG Qilong and his wife XU Caixia go into the city successfully.Although they changed their identities,it is still difficult to cross the cultural gap between rural and urban.They have to hesitate and break the predicament between the substance city and spirit city.SHAO Li contains the contradiction between city and countryside and reveals the universal living plight in the present.With her feelings of compassion,she considers their own reality,and actively think about the way of modernization in China.