一头一回撰写《后记》,是为长篇小说《新西游记》。我素来胆小,隐隐地担心某种非文学的因素,会把这部费了八年心血的作品废掉。因此在《后记》里,我要借机作一些解释。或者借用王蒙先生的话,叫加“防震垫”。如果你读它,哪儿觉得硌楞,像是米饭里的砂子,那就是我有意掺的。十多年过去了,事实证明,那种担心纯属多余。如果日后有再版的机会,我想我会 Writing back and forth one by one “Postscript”, is the novel “New Journey to the West.” I have always been timid, faintly worried about some non-literary factors, will be spent eight years of hard work destroyed. So in “Postscript”, I want to take the opportunity to make some explanations. Or borrow Mr. Wang Meng’s words, called Canada “shock pad ”. If you read it, there is a chill in it, like the sand in the rice, that’s what I intend to do. Ten years have passed, it turns out, that kind of worry is purely superfluous. If there is a chance of reprinting in the future, I think I will