《那儿》是曹征路21世纪之初创作的代表之作。这篇小说通过对矿山机械厂工人困顿生活的描绘,揭示了此前共产主义信仰以及由此所产生的集体主义理想在他们身上的缺失。小说的主人公为了拯救当代工人的精神主体,从中国现代历史中的“英特纳雄耐尔”精神中汲取营养,但由于他未能将其建立在工人们的现实要求之上,故而也未能取得很好的效果。矿山机械厂工人们购买股份事件的发生,既是他们精神潜能剧烈爆发的结果之一,也是对历史精神资源能否完成其当代转换的一次重要考验,从结果看,他们虽败犹荣,并为“左翼”精神在当代的实现提供了文学意义上支持和启发。
Naer, as Cao Zhenglu' s representative works in the 21 st century, depicts the poverty-stricken life of the workers in a mining machinery plant, exposing the previous belief in communism and resulting ideal of col- lectivism that they lack. In order to rescue the main spirit of contemporary workers, the leading character gains some lesson from the "international" spirit in Chinese modem history while failing to achieve better effect be- cause he is unable to establish that on their realistic demands. The event that the workers in the mining machin- ery plant buy the shares is one of the results from intensive explosion of their spiritual potentials and also an im- portant test for the possibility of contemporary transformation of historical spiritual resources. In terms of the out- come, they enjoy a glorious failure, offering the support porary realization of "left-wing" spirit. and enlightenment of literal significance for the contem-