蒋平的《只要不当官》以主人公何爽的仕途升迁过程为线索,展现了现代都市文化对个体价值观的影响与塑造。何爽凭借着“运气”和对人际关系的钻营,从科长被提拔到教育局副局长。虽然得到了令许多普通人所钦羡的地位和衣食无忧的物质生活,但却陷入精神的极度苦闷当中。在这一过程中,主人公深深体味到世俗观念对人的主体性的剥夺,感受到婚姻生活的形式化和情感空白。此外,何爽在亲手毁掉了作为其精神寄托的初恋后,也发现了自己被欲望所控 Jiang Ping’s “only improper officer” clues as to how the hero’s Shuang career promotion process, to demonstrate the modern city culture on the impact and shape of individual values. He Shuang by virtue of “luck ” and interpersonal relationships, from the chief was promoted to Deputy Secretary for Education. Although it has gained the admiration and commonweal material life of many ordinary people, it has been plunged into the extreme anguish of depression. In this process, the hero deeply understands the deprivation of human subjectivity by the secular concept and feels the formalization and emotional blank of marital life. In addition, He Shuang personally ruined his first love as a spiritual sustenance, but also found himself controlled by desire