在当代中国文学的整体格局中,它 是一个灿烂而奇异的存在:如果将它作 为小说来读,它充满了历史和传说:如 果将它当作一部文化人类学著作来读, 它又充满了虚构和想像。这就是我翻开 此书的最初原因,但在阅读的整个过程 中,我常常不由自主地陷入无穷尽的思 索之中,这种深深的思索最终成了我继 续读下去的原因。 It is a brilliant and strange existence in the overall pattern of contemporary Chinese literature: if we read it as a novel, it is full of history and legend: if we read it as a book of cultural anthropology, it is full of Fiction and imagination. This is the first reason why I opened this book. However, during the whole process of reading, I often involuntarily plunge into endless thoughts. This deep thinking eventually became the reason why I continued reading.