徐则臣的小说有一种乡愁。在较早期的作品中,这种乡愁伴随着对乡景的追忆、成长时期的忧愁,氤氲在花街的烟雨和运河的水雾之中。他后来写北京,但这城市仍是外乡人眼里的城市,是令他们迷惘、失落的陌生居所,也是他们热切追求梦想的地方。而在最近的《小城市》里,离乡的人回乡了,却发现故乡也已变得陌生。这些人物总处于他们所在的地方之外,他们是已不存 Xu Zechen’s novel has a nostalgia. In earlier works, this nostalgia was accompanied by the reminiscence of the view of the village, the sorrows of the growing up, wandering through the misty streets and mist of the canal. He later wrote Beijing, but the city is still the city in the eyes of strangers, a strange place for them to be lost and lost. It is also a place where they earnestly pursue their dreams. In the recent “Little City,” people who left their hometown returned home, but found that their hometown had become stranger. These people are always outside their place, they are no more