《辽阔的大地》,一本厚达800页的长篇小说,作者君特·格拉斯希望向自己的读者展示一部记载德国重新统一后现状的文学大百科全书。毫无疑问,随着本世纪最后一次诺贝尔文学奖的获得,他这个宏大的愿望进一步得到了延续和巩固。然而,在《辽阔的大地》出版的1995年,围绕着这部小说出现了一系列戏剧性事件。媒体和书评界针对它闹得沸沸扬扬,据称就是在德国战后文学史上也尚未有过类似的喧嚣,类似的激奋。确切的说,小说在出版之前的好几个月,就已在全德国范围的媒体上引起反响。大约与德国文学界的传统和个人嗜好有关,君特·特拉斯拿着《辽阔的大地》的手稿参加了一个朗读会。对于拿着自己的小说当众朗读,在中国的文学界里几乎没听说过,但在德国的作家们中间,好像非常普遍。当场朗读,当场听取评论,这种有趣的方式,在他们看来,能更加直接地推动文学创作与评 The vast land, a 800-page novel, author Günthers Glass hopes to show his readers an encyclopedia of literature that documents the status quo of Germany’s reunification. Undoubtedly, his great wish has been further extended and consolidated with the accession of the last Nobel Prize in Literature of this century. However, in 1995, “The Great Earth” was published, there appeared a series of dramatic events around this novel. The media and book critics have been uproaring about it and are said to have had no similar bluster or similar excitement in Germany’s post-war literature history. To be precise, the fiction, months before it was published, has aroused repercussions in the media throughout Germany. About the traditions and personal tastes of the German literary world, Güntstraus took a manuscript with a “vast expanse of earth” at a reading conference. Almost never heard of literary circles in China holding aloud their own novels, but among German writers, it seems to be very common. Speaking on the spot, listening to comments on the spot, this interesting way, in their opinion, can more directly promote literary creation and evaluation