《戒严令之夜》起初是在《小说新潮》杂志上连载,1980年3月由新潮社出版单行本,当年7月被改编成同名电影公映。本文通过一批名画失踪——找到——再失踪的故事,既展现了战后日本、智利等国的社会情况,又涉及世界美术史的许多知识。尽管作者在连载这部小说时,曾声明“小说情节纯属虚构”,但从作者创作这部小说曾经参阅了六十八本参考资料这一点来看,说明作者的创作态度还是比较严肃的。这种以某些事实为基础,再加上虚构和艺术加工,例如虚构了劳佩斯和鸣海望洋等人物,使小说增添传奇和神秘的色彩,令人读后产生一种扑朔迷离的感觉,这也许正是作者创作上一个引人注目的特点。从这部作品中,人们不难看出作者对霸权主义的反感和对世界政局的忧虑。他在本书《作者的话》中曾说:“三位巴布洛奇怪地同在1973年去世,这也许预告了一个时代的结束。随之而来的又是什么样的时代呢?我看不清楚。但有一种预感,今后的时代肯定是一个戒严令的时代。”这段话是不是作者在书中想要告诉读者的一个主要意思,这就有待读者读后加以回味了。本文根据新潮社1980年5月第3版译出,编辑时有所删节。 “Martial Law Night” was first serialized in “Novel Trendy” magazine. In March 1980, the booklet was published by Xinchao Shek in March of that year and was adapted into a movie of the same name in July of that year. This article through a group of famous paintings missing - found - missing again story, not only shows the post-war Japan, Chile and other countries social situation, but also involves many of the world art history knowledge. Although the author serialized this novel when he stated that “the story of the novel is purely fictional,” the writer’s creation attitude is still relatively serious in the light of the reference to 68 reference materials that the author wrote this novel. Based on some facts, the fiction and art processing, such as fictionalizing the characters such as Lopez and Minghai Wangyang, make the novels contain the legend and the mysterious color, making the reading a kind of complicated and confusing feeling, This is perhaps the last striking feature of the author’s creation. From this work, one can easily see the author’s dislike of hegemonism and his worries about world politics. In his book, “The Author’s Words,” he said: “The three Pablo who weirdly died in 1973 may have foretold the end of an era. What kind of time has come between them? It is not clear, but there is a hunch that the future will surely be a martial law era. ”This passage is not a major intent the author wants to tell readers in the book, which needs to be read afresh by the reader. This article is based on the new edition of 1980’s May, 1980, edited and sometimes abridged.