本文透過細讀陳映真自1960年起至1994年，有關50年代左翼分子的五個重要文學文本，試圖追溯地下黨人及其家屬在當時投身社會主義運動與失敗後的精神風貌，並初步的勾勒那一代左翼分子的心靈史的結構。主要的發現是：陳映真在書寫中承繼了50年代左翼的思想情感，其重要性不僅僅在台灣內部搭起了與過去銜接的橋樑，同時連接回中國大陸、聯繫到第三世界，持續了社會主義世界革命的精神。要如何持續挖掘、搶救、研究、書寫台灣戰後左翼歷史，是學術思想界當前所面臨的挑戰。

This essay is an attempt to trace the historical trajectories of the life and/or afterlife of the leftists in the 1950s Taiwan, through close readings of five key texts of Chen Yingzhen's five novels, written from 1960 to 1994. The result is a preliminary picture of the structural configuration of the spiritual history of the leftists from that era. The major discovery is that through writing practices, Chen Yingzhen inherits the thought and sentiment of the 1950s generation. Its contribution goes far beyond bridging the crucial link between the past and present in Taiwan into establishing critical connections with mainland China and the Third Word, especially in the upholding the socialist spirit of the world revolution. How to continue to recover, rescue, research and writing the postwar leftist history in Taiwan is a real challenge to the critical intellectual circle of thought.