苏童曾多次表示他最喜欢写的小说体裁是短篇,长篇于他而言是痛苦的经历,相对于短篇所获得的一致赞誉,苏童构造长篇的能力备受质疑。他把写作长篇小说看作是一种“野心”。获茅盾文学奖以后,在大众唏嘘他的“野心”已经实现的时候,他却又说:“写短篇,我享受的是轻盈的过程,这些年我这么喜欢写短篇,但还是停了下来,因为我的”野心“还没有实现,即使《黄雀记》得了茅奖,我的野心还是没有实现,我不认为它是完美的,我还是觉得有一部完美的 Su Tong has said on many occasions that his favorite genre in short story writing is short and long in his painful experience. Compared with the unanimous praise he received in short stories, Su Tong’s ability to build long stories has been questioned. He regards writing novels as ”ambitions.“ After winning the Mao Dun Literature Prize, when the public sobbed his ”Ambition “ has been achieved, he said: ”I write short articles, I enjoy the process of light, so I like to write short, but still stopped Down, because my “ambition ” has not been achieved, even if the “Yellow Squirrel” got the jackpot, my ambition still did not materialize, I do not think it is perfect, I still think there is a perfect