前两年,几家媒体的记者作读书调查时,我和一些同行被问到这样一个问题:请举出在你的青少年时代,对你影响最大的两部文学作品,前提是只举两部,一部中国的,一部外国的。这提问其实是有些苛刻的,但我还是想到了两部。一部是罗曼·罗兰的《约翰·克利斯朵夫》,我读这本书的时候是初中二年级。那是上世纪七十年代初,中国的书荒时代。当时的社会是鄙弃文化的,而我也像父母是知识分子身份的多数中学生一样,热衷于书写“忏悔体”日记。因为内心深处总有莫名的自卑, When I interviewed several journalists in the media two years ago, some of my colleagues and I were asked the following question: Please give two literary works that have the greatest influence on you in your youth. One Chinese, one foreign one. This question is actually a bit harsh, but I still think of two. One is John Roosevelt’s John Krisdorff, the second-grader of junior high school when I read this book. That was the era of book shortage in China in the early 1970s. At that time, society was disdainful of culture, and I, like most middle school students whose parents are intellectuals, were keen to write diary of “Confession Body.” Because there are always inexplicable inferiority inferiority,