《活动变人形》是当代作家王蒙以个人成长经历为原型创作的、具有代表意义的长篇小说。小说采用独特的叙述视角和音乐化的创作方法对中国历史进行了回望,充分展现了特定历史时期下中西方文明相互碰撞、融合的情况,也表现出在这种时代背景下,人们迷惘多变的心绪以及作者对中国人精神家园的寻找。 “Activities of the human form” is a contemporary novel written by Wang Meng, a protagonist of personal growth experience. The novel adopts a unique perspective of narration and musician’s creative method to look back on Chinese history and fully demonstrates the collision and integration of Chinese and Western civilizations in a particular historical period. It also shows that under such a time-bound background, people are confused Change the mood and the author’s search for the spiritual home of Chinese.