偏至:现代文学的价值走向

五四新化运动所提出的“立人”标准理应是中国现代学的价值走向,但现代学在其发展过程中,事实上却逐渐偏离了这一正确走向。早期共产党人与个别激进作家是这种偏至的始作佣,而无产阶级革命学运动则将其进一步导向了集体主义、阶级本位,所幸的是非主流学继承了五四学的价值走向,才使得三十年代的学显得丰富多彩。但抗战使主流、非主流学都汇集于民族本位,学因此而走向了狭窄的通道,鲜有能与伟大的时代相匹配的史诗性作品传世。

Deviation: the Value Orientation of Modern Literature

The "moralization" standard, which was proposed during the May 4 Movement, should have been the value orientation of the modern Chinese literature, but in fact it deviates from this correct direction. Some earlier communists and radical writers are the initiators. The proletarian revolutionary literature movement directs it towards collectivism and class standard. Fortunately, the non-mainstream literature inherits the value orientation of the May 4 Movement, making the literature of the 1930s colorful and varied. But the Resistance War converges the mainstream and the non-mainstream literatures into the standard of nationality. Mao Zedong's Address at Yan-an turns the standard of nationality into class standard, with workers and farmers as the top priority. This leads literature into a narrow alley, hardly leaving masterpieces matching with the great times in China.