社会转型时代需要怎样的文学,这是近年来大陆文学发展的热点话题。20世纪70年代台湾“乡土文学”的代表作《金水婶》和新世纪大陆“乡下人进城”叙事的代表作《瓦城上空的麦田》同是对社会转型的批判性书写,前者以传统批判现实主义的笔法,刻画人物形象和性格,以此传达对台湾现代化出路的思考;后者重“苦难”故事情节的营构,呈现以寓言象征色彩,表现着作家的愤激。两篇作品的差异是两岸社会转型期文学的整体性差异,这种差异值得我们深入反思。 What kind of literature is needed in the era of social transition? This is a hot topic in the development of Chinese literature in recent years. The representative works of Taiwan’s “native literature” in the 1970s, “Ancestral Golden Aussie,” and the new century mainland “countryman” into the city, “the representative of” wheat fields over the tile city “is the same with the social transformation of the critical writing, the former In the traditional critical realism style, portray character and character, in order to convey the way to Taiwan’s modernization way of thinking; the latter heavy ”misery" story structure, showing symbolic color of allegory, showing the author’s indignation. The difference between the two works is the overall difference of literature in the social transition between the two sides of the Strait. Such differences deserve our in-depth reflection.