小說《絕頂》通過對一群當代青年知識分子的刻畫和塑造,反映了人類同自身所處的環(huán)境,同自己的命運和意志力對話、抗爭、交流的過程。在肖頓河、安群、丁首都、小川原兵衛(wèi)、肖五洲、安娜等這樣一些不安于現狀,不斷地尋求挑戰(zhàn),不斷地超越自我,不斷地向著理想境界攀登的人物身上,我們能強烈地感受到人類崇高的精神追求的魅力和生命的尊嚴。這種魅力和尊嚴,不只是體現在作為象征意義而強烈描畫出來的梅里雪山卡瓦博格峰和阿爾卑斯山的勃朗峰之上,更重要的是,它是從現實生活的土壤里生長起來的,它交織著人們現實的困惑、焦慮、怯懦、勇敢、追求、抗爭,交織著生與死、愛與恨、聚與散。The Topmost is a novel relating how some modern educated youths, headed by Xiao Dunhe, An Qun, Ding Shoudu, Ogawa, Xiao Wuzhou and An Na, struggle to overcome their hard life, using all their willpower to reach the pinnacle in various fields. This is typically shown in their bid to climb Kawagarbo, the extremely difficult main peak of Meri Snow Mountain on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, as well as Mont Blanc in the European Alps. Through this, we see confusion, anxiety, cowardice and courage, and the hard pursuit of dreams, intertwined with life and death, and love and hate…