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自打我记事起,便不时地有来自不同圈子的人提出这样的要求,即作家应当在政治事务上表态,而非沉默地坐在他们的“象牙塔”里面创作文学。这一要求还从未向牙医或汽车技师提出来过,而且据我所知,药剂师和保险公司雇员也从未被公开呼吁过,他们应当对国家的形势发表看法并对政治上的论争作出评论。我知道,作家被以另外的标准来衡量,而这背后的原因在于,“公众”认为我们是知识分子(这也是个偏见——就我自己来说,我既没有高中毕业,也没有大学毕业),由此对于公众生活的紧迫问题便应该比,比如说一位护士或一位按摩师,拿出
From what I remember, from time to time, people from different circles have raised the demand that writers should position themselves in political affairs instead of silently sitting in their “ivory tower” to create literature. This request has never been raised before by a dentist or a car mechanic, and as far as I know, pharmacists and insurers’ employees have never been publicly appealed, and they should comment on the situation in the country and make political debates comment. I know that writers are measured by other criteria, and the reason behind this is that “the public” thinks we are intellectuals (which is also a prejudice - for my part, I have neither high school graduation nor University graduation), the urgency of public life should be better than that of a nurse or a masseur, for example