阎真是一位严肃的现实主义作家,他以现实主义的严谨、洞察世事的锐利,在大量真实而冷酷的生活细节中,贯穿的是传统知识分子的价值观与现实的功利化价值观的尖锐冲突,书写了当代知识分子的生存困境与精神危机,表现了作者对人生和社会的终极意义的思索。《沧浪之水》与《活着之上》就是其中的典型代表。 Yan Zhen is a serious writer of realism. With rigorous realism and penetrating insight into the details of life, Yan Zhen runs through sharp conflicts between the values ​​of traditional intellectuals and utilitarian values ​​of reality. Writing the survival predicament and the spiritual crisis of the contemporary intellectuals, and reflecting the author’s thinking on the ultimate meaning of life and society. “Canglang water” and “living above” is one of the typical representatives.