二十世纪末中国散文史上的奇观——老生代散文(上)

Prose of the Old Generation(Ⅰ)

老生代散文是中国当代散文文坛一个令人瞩目的亮点。一批活跃在20世纪最后20年的老年散文家,在他们的人生暮年,又创造了艺术生命的辉煌,为20世纪的散文文坛留下了浓墨重彩的一笔。他们的散文展示出学者、作家所特有的历史哲学;他们学贯中西的丰厚学养,对当代文化本体散文的回归具有奠基之功;面对生活给他们带来的磨难,他们通达洒脱、俯仰自如。无论在文化人格架构方面还是艺术特质方面,都是后来者的典范。他们的散文是中国当代文学走向世界的重要文本资源。

The prose of the old generation is an eye-catching scene in the modern Chinese prose arena in that a host of senor prose writers,who have been active in the last two decades of the 20th century,have turned out a series of excellent prose in their declining years,thus having added much luster to the 20th-century prose arena.Their prose,demonstrative of the historical philosophy unique to scholars and writers and of their solid academic qualities well versed in both Chinese and western learning,has laid a foundation for the return of modern cultural and ontological prose.In face of frustrations in life,those prose writers are sensible and unrestrained,behaving dignifiedly,which has become an example for their followers in terms of both cultural personality framework and artistic essence.Their prose is an important textural resource for Chinese prose to be known in the world.