贾平凹认为西方文学具有大境界,西方文学重在分析人性,西方文学采用焦点透视的方式叙述。在此基础上,他认为中国文学、中国作家应该借鉴西方文学的境界,而又要坚持民族的艺术形式。贾平凹对西方文学的上述看法,使他的创作走出了“山地笔记”时代编写感人故事的狭小圈子,逐步走向关注人类生存、人类命运的博大境界。他的小说创作自“商州三录”开始,一直在思考传统与现代、自然与文明、乡村与城市的关系等一系列人类共同面临的重大问题。20世纪80年代中期以来,贾平凹小说的主题由对时代的关注转变为侧重于表现复杂多面的人性。贾平凹表现这些世界性主题时,运用的是民族形式。 Jia Pingwa holds that western literature has a great realm. Western literature focuses on analyzing human nature and Western literature adopts a focus on perspectives. On this basis, he believes that Chinese literature, Chinese writers should learn from the realm of Western literature, but also adhere to the national art form. Jia Ping-wa’s above-mentioned views on Western literature have led him to work out of the narrow circle of writing touching stories in the “mountain notes” era and gradually focus on the broad realm of human existence and human destiny. Since his creation of “Three States in Shangzhou”, his novels have been thinking about a series of important issues that mankind is facing together, such as the relationship between tradition and modernity, nature and civilization, and between villages and cities. Since the mid-1980s, the theme of Jia Pingwa’s novels has shifted from focusing on the age to focusing on the manifestation of complex and multifaceted human nature. When Jia Pingwa shows these world themes, they use the national form.