《燃烧的荒地》是路翎1948年创作的以抗战时期四川乡镇为背景，以农民与地主恶霸相斗争为主题的长篇小说。路翎在卷入现实、思索现实的过程中，重新发现了边地中国和底层民众。从现代个体的矛盾心理和民族复杂的精神世界展开了新的探索，找到了小说介入社会人生的突破口。胡风所提出的“精神奴役的创伤”的命题，开创了在与历史的重负搏斗中寻求解放契机的可能。路翎的小说的叙述受到了胡风所提出的“主观战斗精神”的影响。但无论是人物的自我斗争，还是叙述者引导的人物之思考，都没能为人物的成长开辟出新的道路，而恰恰是在对已经遗失的过去的重提中蕴含着未来的希望。《燃烧的荒地》中存在着郭子龙和张老二的两次革命，郭子龙展现了与历史错位的搏斗的荒诞性，而张老二则从对过去的救赎中实现了革命行动。

The Burning Wasteland is a novel written by Lu Ling in 1948, which is set in the towns of Sichuan during the Anti-Japanese War and focuses on the struggle between peasants and landlords. In the process of getting involved in reality and thinking about it, Luling rediscovered the borderland China and the people at the bottom. From the ambivalence of modern individuals and the complex spiritual world of the nation, the author has launched a new exploration and found a breakthrough for the novel to intervene in social life. The proposition of "the trauma of spiritual slavery" put forward by Hu Feng opens up the possibility of seeking the opportunity of liberation in the struggle with the historical burden. The narration of Lu Ling's novels is influenced by Hu Feng's "subjective fighting spirit". However, neither the self-struggle of the characters nor the thinking of the characters guided by the narrator can open up a new road for the growth of the characters, but it is precisely the remention of the lost past that contains the hope of the future. In The Burning Wasteland, there are two revolutions of Guo Zilong and Zhang Laoer. Guo Zilong shows the absurdity of struggling with the dislocation of history, while Zhang Laoer realizes the revolutionary action from the redemption of the past.