组织这套“文艺通识丛书”的目的，是让文学知识走出专业研究的殿堂，来到人民大众之中。习近平总书记《在文艺工作座谈会上的讲话》指出：“社会主义的文艺，从本质上讲，就是人民的文艺。”人民大众需要文艺，也需要关于文艺的知识。

在工作之余，可读读小说，看看电影、戏剧，也可背古诗、听朗诵、看展览，欣赏歌曲、练书法，参加各种艺术体验活动。在生活中，文学艺术无处不在。但是，爱好文艺，并不等于就懂得文艺。古今上下几千年，东西南北几万里，积累了大量的关于文艺的知识，这是人类文明的重要成果。学习这些知识，是理解沉积在作品之中的意蕴，提高审美水平的重要途径。然而，专家的著述难懂，所讲的知识隐藏在繁杂的论证之中，所用的语言艰涩并时时夹杂许多专门术语，还涉及众多人名、地名和陌生的历史史实，使一般民众难以接受。专业学界与人民大众之间的藩篱亟需推倒，高冷的文学学术与民众的文艺热情之间的鸿沟之上必须架起桥梁。想提高文艺鉴赏水平，还是要听听专家们怎么说，但专家也要说得让大众听得懂。

时代在改变，新的时代，新的经济生活方式，新的技术条件，也促使人民大众的文艺生活发生着深刻的变化。文学艺术遇到了新情况，应该怎么办？一些西方学者提出了“文学的终结”和“艺术的终结”的观点。这种“终结观”，实际上反映的是文艺与审美的关系，文艺与作为其载体的媒体间关系，以及文艺与所反映的观念间关系这三重关系的变化。因此，文艺要适应新情况，理解文艺也需要新的知识。让人民大众掌握关于文艺的知识，让人民大众了解当代文艺的新情况，这一任务的必要性，在当下显得越来越迫切。

用通俗易懂的语言，讲文艺知识。将专家研究成果的结晶，化为人民大众的文艺常识，这种工作其实并不容易。要做到举重若轻，通俗而不浅薄，前沿而不浮躁，深刻而不晦涩，是非常难的一件事。我们组织这套书的原则是，请大家写小书。我们所邀请的作者，都是学术界相关领域的著名学者。他们学养深厚，对学科的来龙去脉有深入的了解，同时，在学术上，既能进得去，又能出得来。我们的目的是，用人民大众看得懂的语言，搭起一座座从专业学术通向人民大众之间的桥梁。

这套丛书的读者定位，是广大的干部群众，文学艺术的爱好者，非文学艺术专业的各行各业的从业者，以及文学艺术专业的初学者。这是一个范围广大的群体。当然，这套书不是教材，不像教材那样板着面孔，用语端庄，体例严谨，要求读者端坐在书桌前仔细研读。我们希望这套书能语言活泼，生动而有趣味性，像床头读物一样，使读者在轻松的阅读中，获得有关文艺的知识。

发展“人民的文艺”，就要使文学知识走向大众。实现国家富强、人民幸福的中国梦，需要文化繁荣，需要普及文艺知识。让更多的人爱好文艺，了解文艺，让文艺知识走进千家万户，这是我们组织这套书的初衷。

张江

2018年8月

The purpose of organizing this set of "general literature and art series" is to let literary knowledge go out of the hall of professional research and come to the masses. General Secretary Xi Jinping's "Speech at the Forum on Literary and Art Work" pointed out: "Socialist literature and art, in essence, is the people's literature and art. "The masses of the people need literature and art, and they also need knowledge about literature and art. In his spare time, he can read novels, watch movies, plays, memorize ancient poems, listen to recitations, watch exhibitions, enjoy songs, practice calligraphy, and participate in various art experience activities. In life, literature and art are everywhere. However, loving literature and art does not mean knowing literature and art. Thousands of miles from ancient to modern times, tens of thousands of miles from east to west, south and north, have accumulated a lot of knowledge about literature and art, which is an important achievement of human civilization. Learning this knowledge is an important way to understand the meaning deposited in the work and improve the aesthetic level. However, the writings of experts are difficult to understand, the knowledge they speak is hidden in complex arguments, the language used is difficult and often mixed with many technical terms, and it also involves many names of people, places and unfamiliar historical facts, which is difficult for the general public to accept. The barriers between professional academics and the people urgently need to be torn down, and bridges must be built on the gap between the cold literary scholarship and the people's enthusiasm for literature and art. If you want to improve the level of literary and art appreciation, you still have to listen to what experts say, but experts must also say it so that the public can understand it. The times are changing, and the new era, the new economic way of life, and the new technological conditions have also promoted profound changes in the literary and artistic life of the people. Literature and art have encountered a new situation, what should be done? Some Western scholars have put forward the idea of "the end of literature" and "the end of art". This "view of the end" actually reflects the change in the triple relationship between literature and art and aesthetics, the relationship between literature and art and the media as its carrier, and the relationship between literature and art and the ideas reflected. Therefore, literature and art must adapt to the new situation, and understanding literature and art also requires new knowledge. The necessity of letting the people master the knowledge of literature and art and let the people understand the new situation of contemporary literature and art is becoming more and more urgent at present. Use easy-to-understand language to speak literary and artistic knowledge. It is not easy to turn the crystallization of experts' research results into the common knowledge of literature and art of the masses. It is very difficult to lift weights, be popular without being shallow, cutting-edge without impetuousness, and be deep and not obscure. Our principle in organizing this set of books is to ask everyone to write small books. The authors we invite are all well-known scholars in related fields in academia. They are deeply educated, have a deep understanding of the ins and outs of the discipline, and at the same time, academically, they can both enter and exit. Our purpose is to build bridges from professional academia to the people in a language that the people can understand. The readers of this series of books are aimed at the broad masses of cadres, lovers of literature and art, practitioners from all walks of life who are not majoring in literature and art, and beginners in literature and art. This is a broad group. Of course, this set of books is not a textbook, unlike the textbook with a straight face, dignified language, rigorous style, requiring the reader to sit at the desk and study it carefully. We hope that this set of books can be lively, vivid and interesting, like bedside reading, so that readers can acquire knowledge about literature and art in a relaxed reading. To develop "the people's literature and art," it is necessary to bring literary knowledge to the masses. To realize the Chinese dream of a prosperous and strong country and a happy people, we need cultural prosperity and the popularization of literary and artistic knowledge. Let more people love literature and art, understand literature and art, and let literary and artistic knowledge enter thousands of households, this is our original intention of organizing this set of books. Zhangjiang, August 2018（AI翻译）