小说以1979年冬天四川一个偏僻农村的社会生活为背景,通过老农许茂和他的女儿们的生活故事,真实地记录了“文革”给农业生产带来的灾难性破坏和在农民精神上造成的严重创伤,深刻反映了70年代末风云变幻的社会面貌,并预示了结束动乱之后必将出现的光明、美好的前景。小说获第一届茅盾文学奖。
作者简介周克芹(1936—1990),四川简阳人。1958年毕业于成都农业专科学校。曾任四川省作家协会副主席,中国作家协会第四届理事。1960年开始发表作品。著有长篇小说《许茂和他的女儿们》,中短篇小说集《二丫和落魄秀才》,短篇小说集《石家兄妹》等。1990年因病去世。
精彩书评
★周克芹善于描写蜀中农村的生活和人物,小说中个性鲜明的艺术形象和深沉委婉的情韵,不仅蕴蓄着作者对“农业问题、农民问题”的理性思考,也标志着他的艺术追求。
——评论家 何镇邦
★小说采用“家庭纪事”的结构方式,以一个家庭的矛盾纠葛和人物性格的变化来反映整个社会的动荡和时代的足迹,达到了以小见大的艺术效果。对蜀中一带自然风物的描写,又使作品染上浓郁的地方色彩,并蕴含着象征的意味。抒情议论起到了画龙点睛的作用,但过多的议论又在一定程度上影响了小说含蓄、蕴藉之美。
——读者 洁敏
★周克芹善于描写蜀中农村的生活和人物,小说中个性鲜明的艺术形象和深沉委婉的情韵,不仅蕴蓄着作者对“农业问题”、“农民问题”的理性思考,也标志着他的艺术追求。
—— 读者 高兴奇
Content introduction
And it foreshadows the bright, bright future that will surely emerge after the end of the turmoil.
About the author
Zhou Keqin (1936-1990) was born in Jianyang, Sichuan Province. He graduated from Chengdu Agricultural College in 1958. He was the vice chairman of Sichuan Writers Association and the fourth director of Chinese Writers Association. He began publishing in 1960. He died of illness in 1990.
Wonderful book review
★ Zhou Keqin is good at describing the life and characters of the countryside in the middle of Sichuan Province. The distinctive artistic image and deep euphemism in the novel not only contain the author's rational thinking on "agricultural problems and farmers' problems", but also mark his artistic pursuit.
-- Critic He Zhenbang
★ The novel adopts the structure of "family chronicle", reflecting the turmoil of the whole society and the footprints of The Times with the contradictions and entanglements of a family and the changes of characters' personalities, achieving the artistic effect of seeing the small as the big. The description of the natural scenery in the middle of Shu Province gives the work a strong local color and contains a symbolic meaning. Lyrical discussion plays the role of finishing the point, but too much discussion also affects the beauty of the novel's implication and implication to a certain extent.
-- Reader Jiemin
★ Zhou Keqin is good at describing the life and characters of the countryside in the middle of Sichuan Province. The distinctive artistic image and deep euphemism in the novel not only contain the author's rational thinking on "agricultural problems" and "peasant problems", but also mark his artistic pursuit.
-- Reader Gao Xingqi