我们的生活为什么需要文学?为什么需要一批作家来对生活“说三道四”?这至少说明,生活中的一些过程和内容可能不为我们所知。如果我们知道了一切,文学就没有多少意义了。作家和艺术家——特别是一些优秀的作家和艺术家——是一些特殊的人,他们能够与世界进行一些独特的对话。他们说出了特别的感想。每个人其实都在以各种各样的方式和世界对话,而作家与世界的对话享有一个特权,这就是虚构。通常我们都把虚构称之为谎言,但是作家的虚构享受道德豁免权。作家是可以说谎的,作家可以运用这个权利说出比我们表面上看到的更为重要的东西。 Why do we need literature in our lives? Why do we need a group of writers to “make a living” of life? At least it shows that some of the processes and contents of life may not be known to us. If we know everything, literature does not mean much. Writers and artists - especially some good writers and artists - are special people who are able to engage in some unique conversations with the world. They made a special feeling. Everyone actually talks to the world in various ways, and the writer’s privilege of dialogue with the world is fiction. Often we all call fiction a lie, but the author’s fictional enjoyment of moral immunity. Writers can lie, and writers can use this right to say something more important than we see on the surface.