千呼万唤不回来——悼念蹇先艾

• 作 者: 李乔
• 出 处: 新文学史料
• 发表日期: 1996年03期
• 关键词: 蹇先艾 孙伏园 “乡土文学” 文学副刊 底层人民 沙汀 艾芜 王统照 官僚地主 一文莫名

二十年代在北平当大学生时,即在孙伏园主编的《晨报副刊》、王统照主编的《文学旬刊》、沈从文主编的天津《大公报文学副刊》等发表作品,反映贵州底层人民在军阀官僚地主劣绅的压榨下苦难生活的蹇先艾先生,曾被鲁迅誉为“乡土文学”作家。他一生致力“乡土文学”,是贵州文艺界的领导之一,又是西南文艺界的“三老”(沙汀、艾芜、蹇老)之一,我很钦敬。在他八十八岁(1994年)诞辰时,我写了一首诗去祝贺他:

In the 1920s, they published works of their own in Peiping, the Morning Post Supplement compiled by Sun Fuyuan, The Literary Tenure edited by Wang Tongzhao, and the Tianjin Da Gong Pao Supplementary Literature, edited by Shen Congwen. Mr. Xi Xiangyi, who squeezed under misery, was once hailed by Lu Xun as a writer of “native literature.” His devotion to “local literature” is one of the leaders of the Guizhou literary and art circles and one of the “three seniors” (Sha Ting, Ai Wu and Lao Lao) in the southwest literary and art circles. I am very respectful. At his eighties (1994) birthday, I wrote a poem to congratulate him on: