我不止一次说过和写过,我不是一个作家,更不是一个文艺评论者,在半个世纪的岁月中,我只是一个文艺园地里的杂工,干了一些碎活。我喜欢文艺,读了一些书,但这不是有系统的学习、研究,而只是无计划的“杂览”。从抗日战争前起,我写了一些不合格的剧本,和相当数量的杂文随笔,现在看来,我写的东西极大部分是为了配合政治,为政治服务的。文艺为政治服务这个口号,经过多年的实践检验,证明它不仅不很完善,而且很明显地带有左倾思潮的烙印,但是我重读这些文章,却并没有后悔的意思,也不想加以修改,因为任何一个人, I have said and written more than once that I am not a writer or even a literary critic. In half a century, I was just a handyman in a literary field and did some broken jobs. I like literature and art, read some books, but this is not systematic study, research, but only the unplanned Miscellaneous Magazine . Since the Anti-Japanese War, I have written some unqualified scripts and a considerable amount of essay essays. Now it seems that most of what I wrote was in line with politics and political services. The slogan that art works for political services has proved to be not only imperfect but also clearly marked by the leftist ideological trend after many years of practice. However, I reread these articles without regretting or modifying them because any A person,