小说缺少什么呢?这个问题如果放在“文化大革命”十年中提出来,我想回答是很容易的。因为大家都不必费脑筋,问题是现成的,答案自然也是现成的。现在就不同了。真要回答这个问题,的确有点老虎吃天的味道了。如今的办法,更多的应该是形而下的就事论事,具体问题具体分析。比如你说刘震云的小说缺少什么,格非的小说缺少什么,大家也许还比较明白一点。因为可以举例分析。但是假如你说现在的小说缺少人物,缺少情节,缺少历史感,缺少典型,那么,你就会发现你什么也没有说。因为现在的小说家和小说家的哥儿们评论家们都在努力地为自己涂上一种与他人不同 What is missing from the novel? If this question was put forward in the ten years of the “Cultural Revolution,” I would like to answer it very easily. Because we do not have to worry about it, the problem is readily available and the answer is naturally ready. It’s different now. Really want to answer this question, indeed a little tiger eat the taste of the day. Today’s approach, more should be the physical considerations, the specific analysis of specific issues. For example, you said that what Liu Zhenyun’s novel lacks and what is missing in Gefei’s novels may well be understood by everyone. Because it can be an example analysis. But if you say that there is a lack of people in your current novels, lack of plot, lack of history, lack of typicality, then you will find that you did not say anything. Because today’s gossip critics of novelists and novelists are trying hard to paint themselves differently from others