王海先生新近出版的长篇小说《城市门》,是近期国内文坛难得的一部优秀作品。这部小说的内容和风格,在继承了陕西作家作品传统所具有的那种深沉与厚重的同时,没有陷入虚幻的文化畅想或迷幻的生存哲理,使小说的深沉与厚重建立在形象可读的基础之上。小说的选材,牢牢地扎根在我国当下社会转型的现实泥土之中,将重心定位于我国农民在城市化浪潮中生存状态的探视,生动而又深刻地展示了黄土地上一群农民 Mr. Wang Hai’s recently published novel “City Gate” is a rare excellent piece of domestic literary works. The content and style of this novel, while inheriting the deep and heavy traditions of the Shaanxi writers’ works, have not fallen into illusionary cultural imagination or psychedelic survival philosophy, so as to make the novel profound and heavy built on the image readable On the basis of. The material selection of the novel is firmly rooted in the present earth of social transformation in our country. It focuses on the living conditions of our peasants in the wave of urbanization, vividly and profoundly shows a group of peasants on the yellow earth