许子东在比较文学、结构主义方面的自由出入,给人以得心应手又不画地为牢的开放感。他的自由心态、综合眼光和民族立场是卓有成效的,而他的《为了忘却的集体记忆》一文也确实体现了个性化阐述的突围。许子东所著《为了忘却的集体记忆》一书讨论了近二十年,是当代小说成为中国知识分子和民众记忆、阅读与诠释文革的重要方式之一。对于同一个作为“历史文本”的文革,又怎么会出现很多不同的解读策略,既满足着不同的读者及不同诠释群体的不同需求,又合成某种意义上的集体 Xu Zidong’s freedom of movement in comparative literature and structuralism gives a sense of openness that is handy and painless. His free attitude, comprehensive vision and national stand were fruitful, and his article entitled “For the sake of forgetting collective memory” also truly embodies the breakthrough of personalized explanation. Xu Zidong’s book Collective Memory for Forget about the past two decades discussed contemporary fiction as one of the important ways for Chinese intellectuals and people to remember, read and interpret the Cultural Revolution. For the same Cultural Revolution as the “historical text”, how can there be many different strategies of interpretation, which not only meet the different needs of different readers and different interpretive groups, but also synthesize a sense of the collective