《烦恼人生》以平实、琐屑的写实风格被看作是新写实小说的发轫之作,引起了文坛上的广泛关注,同时它也是池莉小说创作阶段的重要转折点。《烦恼人生》以对平凡人生、世俗生活的深切体验,透过印家厚平淡无奇的日常生活显露出普通小人物的生存窘况,从生存之累的情感体验中揭示出现代人的精神处境。 Being a real, trivial and realistic style, Troubled Life is regarded as the epoch-making work of the new realistic novels, arousing widespread concern in the literary world. It is also an important turning point in Chi Li’s novel creation phase. “Troubled Life” reveals the ordinary people’s survival predicament through the indifferent everyday life of the Indian through profound experience of common life and secular life, revealing the spiritual situation of modern people from the tired experience of emotion.