石麟教授的《闲书谜趣——另类中国古代小说史》是作者三十余年来研治古代小说中诸多思考的结晶,这是一部立足小说文本,在旁征博引大量说部文献资料的前提下条分缕析、穷本溯源,既推陈出新,新见叠出,又在充满才子之笔的机趣中渗透了作者对社会人生的深层思考,体现出传统知识分子浓厚的人文情怀,是近年 Professor Shilin’s “Book Mystery - A History of Alternative Chinese Fiction” is the result of more than thirty years’ study and treatment by the author of many reflections in ancient novels, based on the novel’s text. Article analysis, the source of the poor, both innovative, stacked new insights, but also full of wit in the pen filled with the author’s deep thinking of social life, reflects the traditional intellectuals strong human feelings, in recent years