大约十年前,苏童“重述神话”的《碧奴》刚刚问世的时候,郜元宝先生写过一篇题为《岂敢折断你想象力的翅膀》的评论。他借这个略显怪异的题目表达了对时下中国小说中流行的“神话般的脚不着地的想象力”的不满。在他看来,以苏童和《碧奴》为代表的一批中国作家作品实际上是在“制造自己想象力的奇观,以证明一部分中国人确实喜欢并善于胡思乱想罢了。”但我们不能就此认为郜先生是反对小说家的想象力的,因为作为一种虚构文体,任何小说都 About a decade ago, when Su Tong and Bi Nu of Restating Myths just came out, Mr. Yuan Yuanbao wrote an essay entitled “How can you break your wings?” He borrowed a slightly weird topic to express his dissatisfaction with the “fabulous fantastic imagination” prevailing in current Chinese novels. In his view, a group of Chinese writers represented by Su Tong and “Bitu” actually “wondered at making their own imagination to prove that some Chinese really like and are good at cranky.” "But we can not In this regard, Mr. 是 is anti-novelist imagination, because as a fictional style, novels are