站在新世纪的起点上，搞文学的人们很容易提出这样的问题：上个世纪给我们带来的是什么样的文学传统？我们如何才能更好地承续那些优良的文学传统而丢弃那些不良的文学传统？当然，要做到这一点，文学界首要的任务是对２０世纪文学即我们通常所谓的中国现代文学的传统作一次认 Standing at the starting point of the new century, people engaging in literature can easily ask such questions as: What kind of literary tradition was brought to us in the last century? How can we better inherit those fine literary traditions and discard those bad literary traditions? Of course, to accomplish this, the primary task of the literary world is to recognize the 20th century literature as the tradition of what we commonly call Chinese modern literature