一在世纪末中国文学的总体格局之中,“晚生代小说”无疑是一股相当重要的小说潮流,其重要性不仅在于它们较为独特的叙事实践及其引发的文学论争,更在于这些“实践”与“论争”所隐含的一个历史性的文化难题,这便是知识者们有着切肤之痛的启蒙主义的困厄处境。在“晚生代”的叙事与言说之中,启蒙主义的困境相当明显地表现为启蒙理念的遭致解构和知识分子的身份危机。在18世纪启蒙运动以来的世界现代史以及20世纪的中国历史上,以自由、民主、 In the general pattern of Chinese literature at the end of the century, “novels of the late generation” undoubtedly are an important trend of fiction. Its importance lies not only in their unique narrative practice and the literary controversy they cause, but also in the fact that these “practices” And historical controversial issues implied by a cultural problem, this is the knowledge of the painful Enlightenment distress situation. In the “Late Generation” narratives and discourses, the plight of Enlightenment is quite evident in the deconstruction of the Enlightenment concept and the identity crisis of the intellectuals. In the modern history of the world since the Enlightenment in the 18th century and in the Chinese history of the 20th century, freedom, democracy,