文学研究是一种接力的事业，中国现代文学研究同样也是如此。本书涉及了在中国现代文学研究方面颇有建树、影响非凡的第一代、第二代、第三代学人共计19人，既就学人各自的学术通路、专业成就和治学特点进行了富有深度的研究，从研究视野、心态、观念、方法等方面及时总结他们的学术思想，阐发他们的学术贡献；又关注学人著作的版本，学人的日记、书信，他人的回忆，以及作者与学人接触中的观察与感悟，把重心放在通过“历史的细节”，为“学”术研究背后的“人”作“素描”。书中各篇文章所体现和透露的详实的、具体的历史资料，无疑大大丰富了中国现代文学的记忆内涵。对中国现代文学史来说，其秘密并非显示在作品和研究论著之中，而往往深藏于当事人的生活境遇和生命意识之中，文学研究的途径就是进入当事人的学术生涯，感悟他们的思想脉搏，从中获取对于文学和学术的真切理解。文学研究的魅力就是触及和敞开围绕当事人的这些秘密。从这个意义上讲，本书作为作者从事中国现代文学学人研究的阶段性成果，不惟有一定的学术价值，一定程度上还可能成为检索和观照当前文学史写作、甚至文学记忆的一面镜子。

Literary research is a relay undertaking, and so is the study of modern Chinese literature. This book involves a total of 19 first, second and third generation scholars who have made great achievements and have an extraordinary influence in the study of modern Chinese literature, who not only conducted in-depth research on their respective academic pathways, professional achievements and academic characteristics, but also summarized their academic ideas and explained their academic contributions in a timely manner from the aspects of research vision, mentality, concept and method. He also pays attention to the versions of scholars' works, scholars' diaries, letters, and memories of others, as well as the author's observations and perceptions in contact with scholars, focusing on making "sketches" of the "people" behind the "learning" research through "historical details". The detailed and specific historical information embodied and revealed in the articles in the book undoubtedly greatly enriched the memory connotation of modern Chinese literature. For the history of modern Chinese literature, its secrets are not displayed in works and research works, but often hidden in the life circumstances and life consciousness of the parties, and the way to literary research is to enter the academic career of the parties, feel their ideological pulse, and obtain a true understanding of literature and scholarship. The charm of literary research is to touch and open up these secrets around the subject. In this sense, as a phased achievement of the author's research on modern Chinese literature, this book not only has certain academic value, but may also become a mirror for retrieving and observing current literary history writing and even literary memory to a certain extent.（AI翻译）