李贯通，男，山东鱼台人，1949年10月出生于江苏省丰县一个中医世家， 1977年考入聊城大学中文系，1982年大学毕业，1988年调入省作家协会，曾任中国文联委员、山东省作家协会副主席兼创作室主任，出版小说集14部。其《洞天》获第八届全国优秀短篇小说，《天缺一角》获首届鲁迅文学奖中篇小说奖。部分作品译成英、法、俄、阿拉伯等文字，在国外出版。

　　诺贝尔文学奖得主莫言曾说：“贯通二十多年从容写作，成绩斐然。他幼习中医，熟谙阴阳，小说写得虚实相济，境界高远，有深厚的文化底蕴，值得我学习。”评论家雷达评价李贯通：“儒雅潇洒的语言风采，虚实相生的迷蒙境界，杜鹃啼血的心灵诉求，宽厚仁爱的精神家园。”评论家吴义勤称赞道：“真实与荒诞、寓言与象征、实在与幻像、内心与外在，均融合得亲密无间；构思的巧妙，叙述的圆熟，语言的老到，都令人称叹。”

　　李贯通写文化人的三个中篇《天下文章》《天缺一角》《迷蒙之季》，形象生动，意蕴深厚，充盈着寓言的隐秘和宿命的神秘。《天下文章》写的是文化馆一位作家被商品经济大潮冲击得丢魂落魄，不知所措，成为一个尴尬的典型代表。《天缺一角》写的是文化馆一块价值连城的汉化像石被毁了一角，该馆的文物专家呼吁筹措，终于有了资金为像石盖碑亭，然而做梦也想不到的是碑亭却建在了另一块没有价值的新碑上，张冠李戴，云泥不分，文物专家含怨离世。他是变改时代一个忿懑无奈的代表。《迷蒙之季》刻画的是群像：一个来自农村的搞音乐的女馆员，当年为了学费不惜献身村长，如今为了金钱，她却兼职做了“高级小姐”；文化馆的老馆长，是曾经风光一时的战斗英雄，在商品社会的今天，他辉煌不在，他的功绩与威名被人们忘却，被遗忘的恐惧在悄悄地折磨着他，终于有一日，在一个突发事件后，他在光天化日之下沿街裸奔了，他的过去的故事重新成为人们的话题；一位诗人视文学如生命，文学的“危机”就是他生命的危机，每天晚上，他都作好死亡的准备，衣冠整齐地睡倒，灯一灭就听到他已故的父亲催他上路的声音；被各种社会压力及腰椎间盘突出折磨的画家，从狗那里得到启发，每天凌晨他都学狗爬，练得可以驮着儿子飞奔，连撒尿也对着一棵树翘起一条腿……小说的结局，更是令人震撼，欲哭无泪，长叹不已：该馆几乎所有的人先后都住进了精神病院。

　　李贯通

Li Guantong

　　Li Guantong of Yutai, Shandong Province, was born in October 1949 in Fengxian County, Jiangsu Province in a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. He was admitted to the Chinese Language Department of Liaocheng University in 1977. He graduated from the University in 1982 and transferred to the Provincial Writers Association in 1988. He was a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and was vice chairman and creative director of the Shandong Province Writers Association. He has published 14 novels. His Dongtian won the eighth National Excellent Short Story award. A Corner of Heaven is Missing won the first Lu Xun Literature Prize novella award. Some of his works have been translated into English, French, Russian, Arabic and other languages and have been published outside China.

　　Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, once said: “Guantong has been writing for more than 20 years, and his achievements are splendid. He has been acquainted with Chinese medicine since he was a child and is familiar with yin and yang. His novels are written with a mix of reality and imagination, have a broad setting, and possess a deep cultural heritage. They are worth learning from.” The critic Lei Da had this to say about Li Guantong: “Graceful, natural and unrestrained language, the mix of the real and the imaginary, the spiritual appeal of Du Fu’s blood, and the spiritual home of generous and loving people.” Critic Wu Yiqin praised him: “The real and absurd, parables and symbols, reality and fantasy, the inner heart and the outside world are all blended together perfectly; the ingeniousness of conceptualization, the familiarity of the narrative, and the thoughtfulness of the language are all praiseworthy.”

　　Li Guantong has written three literary articles: The Story of the World, A Corner of Heaven is Missing, and The Season of the Lost, with vivid imagery and depth in meaning, filling the secret of the fable and the mystery of fate. The Story of the World is about a writer from a cultural center who loses his soul through the impact of the commodity economy. Feeling overwhelmed and not knowing what to do, he becomes a typical representative of embarrassment. The book A Corner of Heaven is Missing is a story about the damaging of a corner of a worthless stone statue of a culture center. The museum’s cultural experts appeal for money to be raised. There is eventually enough raised to fund the building of a pavilion with a tablet inside. However, as no one could have expected, the pavilion is built on another priceless tablet. In the confusion, the expert dies because of his grievances. He is representative of helplessness in the changing of the times.

　　The Season of the Lost is a group portrait: a female curator from the countryside engaged in music who offers her body to the village chief for tuition fees. Then, for the sake of money, she worked part-time as a “senior prostitute”; the old curator of the culture hall is a once gloried battle hero. In the materialistic society of today, his glory, his merits and prestige have been forgotten by the people. Forgotten fears are quietly afflicting him. Finally, one day, after an unexpected incident, he runs naked through the street in broad daylight. The story of his past becomes a topic of conversation for people once again. A poet sees literature as life, and the “crisis” of literature is a crisis in his life. Every night, he prepares himself to die and sleeps while neatly dressed. As soon as the lights go out, he hears the sound of his late father urging him to go on the road. An artist who is tortured by various kinds of social pressures and a lumbar disc herniation gains inspiration from a dog. Every morning he practices walking on four legs like a dog and becomes so good that he can run with his son on his back. He even pees by cocking his leg up next to a tree… The ending of the novel is even more shocking. Wanting to cry but with no tears appearing, he lets out a long sigh: almost everyone from the center gets admitted to a mental hospital one after the other.