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序言20世纪90年代以来,英国文坛上多位著名作家相继辞世,一时造成了众多批评家伤感不已,他们大叹昔日的不列颠帝国每况愈下。小说编辑理查德·戈特如此说道,“当代英国小说处于一种悲哀的境地,这一点众人皆知。”类似的抱怨之声不绝于耳：英国小说失去了对书写对象的所有感觉,它缺乏美国小说本土化的力量,缺乏印度小说丰富的想象力,缺乏拉美小说超现实的光彩,缺乏爱尔兰小说的政治历史活力。资深记者威廉·利思则进一步分析说：英国小说之所以淡出了小说百花园,是因为“近来,英国没有为小说提供良好的故事背景”。
Preface Since the 1990s, many famous writers on the English literary world have passed away one after another, causing many critics to feel sad at times. They sigh aside the old British empire. As the novel editor Richard Gott put it, “It is well-known that contemporary English novels are in a tragedy.” Similar voices of grudges are heard: English novels have all their senses of writing and lack the United States The novel’s localization strength lacks the rich imagination of Indian novels, lacks the surreal luster of Latin American novels and lacks the political and historical vitality of Irish novels. Veteran reporter William Leith further analyzed that the reason why English novels fade out of the novel’s hundred gardens is that “recently Britain did not provide a good story background for the novel.”