保卫读者:中国当代文学“脱困”的一条进路

Defend the Reader:An Approach to Getting out of the Trouble of Contemporary Chinese Literature

中国当代文学已走过了70余年的历程。近年,中国当代文学陷入作者群庞大而读者群弱小的“虚胖”之困境,所以必须保卫读者。从政策性角度看,需以“以人民为中心”的文艺政策为指导,确立“读者中心”意识。从专业性角度看,作家和文学研究者需做到心中有读者,为读者而写而思。最后,从媒介性角度看,需充分关注当下读者的阅读兴趣和习惯,转向数字媒介和数字读物。前两者从宏观处着眼,为读者回归当代文学场域确立制度保障;后者从微观处着手,为“偏离航向”的当代文学阅读设锚导航。为了更好地发挥数媒阅读对读者的引导作用,需提升经典文学在数字读物中的比例、提高原创数字文学的质量、提速文学报刊的数字化步伐。这些措施不一定能够根治当代文学的病症,却在一定程度上扩大了文学阅读的人口基数,使当代文学慢慢脱离发展困境成为可能。

Contemporary Chinese literature has gone through more than 70 years.In recent years,the contemporary Chinese literature has fallen into the predicament of puffiness with a large author base and a weak reader base.The reader must be defended.From a policy perspective,the people-centered literature and art policy should be guided to establish a reader centered consciousness.From a professional perspective,writers and literary researchers should have readers in their hearts and write and think for the readers.Finally,from a media perspective,it is necessary to pay full attention to the current readers'reading interests and habits,and switch to digital media and digital books.The first two are from a macro perspective,to establish the institutional guarantees for readers to return to the contemporary literary field;the latter starts from the microcosmic point of view,provide navigation for contemporary literature reading that is off course.In order to play a better guiding role of digital media reading for readers,it is necessary to increase the proportion of classic literature in digital readings,improve the quality of original digital literature,and speed up the digitization of literary newspapers.These measures may not be able to cure the symptoms of contemporary literature,but to a certain extent expand the population base of literary reading,and it is possible to make contemporary literature gradually break away from the predicament of development.