一般来说,我们把陈忠实的《白鹿原》归为“寻根文学”(1)或者延续“寻根”之风的“新历史小说”。学术界对《白鹿原》的研究也围绕:不重人物个性的刻画,重民族文化心理结构的揭示;不重事物发展因果联系的过程,重主体的瞬间体验;不重革命历史大场面的描写,重封建宗法和家族伦理等日常生活逻辑的叙述。从艺术特色上来说,这类小说都深受拉美魔幻现实主义的影响,以一种“想象性”的方式书写富有浓郁地域 In general, we categorize Chen’s “White Deer Plain” as “New Roots ” (1) or “New Historical Novel ” that continues the “Root-Seeking” style. The academic research on the “White Deer Plain” also focuses on the following aspects: the portrayal of personality without personality, the revelation of psychological structure of ethnic culture, the process of causality connection without heavy matters, the instant experience of heavy subject, the description of large scenes without heavy revolution, Re-seal the logic of everyday life, such as Jianzong law and family ethics. From an artistic point of view, these novels are deeply influenced by the magical realism in Latin America and write rich areas in an “imaginative” way