读《挽歌》(《上海文学》91年5期),自然想到了叶兆言的另外两篇关于现代爱情生活的小说:《五月黄昏》和《艳歌》。叶兆言以其随意调侃的笔触剖析着在都市生活中被世俗力量压扁了的爱情,并试图去寻求一种完美的爱情模式。在前两篇小说中,作者的蕴意比较模糊,留给人们的只是从一连串平淡无奇的生活琐事中能感受到的、却又难以表述清楚的东西,这或许正是作者的追求之所在。而在《挽歌》 Reading “Elegy” (Shanghai Literature, 1991, No. 5), I naturally think of Ye Zhaoyan’s two other novels about modern love life: Twilight in May and Aloysia. Ye Zhaoyan analyzed the love crushed by the secular forces in urban life with his free-kicking brushwork and sought to find a perfect love model. In the first two novels, the author’s implication is rather vague, leaving people only from a series of bland things that can be felt in the life, but difficult to make clear things, which is perhaps the author’s pursuit . In the “Elegy”