《晚霞消失的时候》当年赢得读者激赏且带来广泛争议,原因在于其“离经叛道”的新锐性和先锋色彩。小说的文学史意义在于它承续了“五四”文学传统并开启了中国当代文学融入世界的一脉。小说引发争议有诸多因素,且有着特定思想文化语境下的逻辑必然性,今天重读作品给我们的重要启示是,“敢遣风云上笔端”才可能展示文学强有力的存在。 “When the sunset disappears” won the readership that year and brought a lot of controversy because of its “deviant” new and pioneering. The significance of the literary history of the novel is that it inherits the “May Fourth” literary tradition and opens the way for the contemporary Chinese literature to integrate into the world. There are many factors that lead to controversy in the novel, and there is a logical necessity in a specific ideological and cultural context. The important revelation to us today in reworking works is that it is possible to show the strong existence of literature without daring to write.