路遥:在交叉地带探索人生的意义

Lu Yao:Exploring the Meaning of Life in the Area of Intersection

路遥是中国当代用小说挖掘交叉地带价值、探索交叉地带人生意义的先锋。他一系列产生重大影响的作品,都以城乡差别年代的交叉地带为典型时空,以这一地带的奋斗者为主人公。路遥着力描写主人公在交叉地带产生认同危机,进行艰难探索,在奋斗中获得尊严与认可的历程,表现了在过去与未来、传统与现代两极之间的张力作用下青年人的困惑、焦虑和向往。路遥的这种现实主义探索,赋予他的小说创作以深刻的人生哲学意义,对之后的小说创作具有重要的启示作用。

In contemporary China,Lu Yao was the pioneer of using novels to explore the value and significance of life in the area of intersection.A series of his works with great influence took the intersection area in the era of urban-rural disparity as the typical background,and the strivers in this area as the protagonists.Lu Yao focused on describing the process of the protagonist’s identity crisis in the intersection,making arduous exploration and gaining dignity and recognition in the struggle,which showed the young people’s confusion,anxiety and yearning under the tension between the past and the future,the traditional and the modern.Lu Yao’s exploration of realism endowed his novels with a profound philosophy of life and was an important reference for novels of later times.