时尚与永恒

当前 ,在文学艺术界 ,追求时尚已经泛滥成灾 ,成为浮躁社会心态的一个组成部分。时尚所关联的是公众审美心理的表层 ,它不但与媒体和商业炒作紧相伴随 ,而且 ,归根结蒂是与功利及金钱、与拜金主义互为表里的。文学艺术领域中追求时尚的极端表现便是“新奇崇拜” ,这种东西与我们所珍视的“创新”完全不能划等号。文学艺术从本体上来说 ,需要的是对永恒的执着追求。“时代精神”就是一种“永恒”。文艺所要追求的“永恒” ,就是公众的深层心理。追求永恒必然与浮躁无缘 ,倒是与“沉潜”有关。它要求不去迎合时尚 ,只有这样才更能贴近生活 ,更能与自己“时代中不断发酵着的”时代精神“有着许多暗合”

Vogue and Eternality

At present, the pursuit of vogues in literary and art circles are rampant. Vogues are something related to the supercrast of the aesthetic consciousness of the public. They are connected not only with mass media and commercial rehashing, but also with money and material gains. In literary and art circles, the ultimate expression of the pursuit of vogues is "novelty worship". It is absolutely different from what we value "creativeness". In art and literature, we need the pursuit of eternality, and eternality we are seeking for in art and literature is "Zeitgeist" and that is the deep structure of the public psychology. The pursuit of eternality has nothing to do with impetuosity but has something to do with profoundity. It needs keeping aloof from pandering to vogues and by so doing can we approach more closely to life and reality and represent the Zeitgeist.