严肃文学发生“危机”是历史的必然。“危机”出现的必然性与合理性是：教育发展所致的社会文化素质的普遍提高迫使文学重新定位，迅速崛起的类文学与严肃文学展开竞争，现代化的大众传媒弱化严肃文学的认识功能，新型的文学流布方式冲击了传统的文学运作方式与生产体系。“危机”的出现主要是我国的精神文明与物质文明进步的结果 Serious literature “Crisis” is a historical necessity. The inevitability and rationality of “crisis” appear are as follows: the general increase of social and cultural qualities caused by educational development forces literature to be reoriented; the rapidly emerging class literature competes with serious literature; the modern mass media weakens the cognitive function of serious literature; The literary distribution method has hit the traditional literary mode of operation and production system. The emergence of “crisis” is mainly the result of the progress of spiritual civilization and material civilization in our country