申跃中是一位少年得志、中经低谷、大器晚成的中国当代乡土作家。本文在对他起伏多变的创作命运的审视思考中,阐述了以下几个问题:中国 当代这一特定历史时期时代社会因素对于作家创作命运的影响;作家对创作道路的自觉选择和对艺术境界的 自觉追求对创作命运的重要意义;底层生活体验对作家创作命运的决定作用;一代乡土作家思想和艺术的局限给创作命运带来的遗憾。

ShenYuezhong was a contemporary Chinese writer of his native land. He enjoyed success when young, experienced low yielding period in middle ages and developed his ability to the full in his late years. Looking closely at and thinking deeply about his rising and falling writing experience, this article elab-orates the following points:the influence of the times and social factors of the contemporary China on his writhing fate;the great significance brought to his writing fate form his conscious choice of the writing career and pursuit of the artistic realm;the decisive influence of his living experience at the bottom of soci-ety on his writing fate;the regrets resulting from the local writ-er's limitations of ideology and art.