沉静天空:《巴塞尔姆的60个故事》让我想起前不久刚读过的格雷厄姆·格林的《二十一个故事》,同样直白的命名方式,却如大卫·盖茨在序中所言:“这根本不是一个谦逊的书名。”看似是并无关系的大拼盘,却可以从故事内部的逻辑中找到若隐若现的关联线索,最终,所有故事都成为一体,作者真正想表达的主题亦通过后现代的方式,渐渐浮出水面。后现代为语言的自由提供了舞台,是文字,更像是狂欢的剧场,没有固定的主题,恰是最大的意义。 Calm Sky: The 60 Stories of Basel Reminds me of Graham Greene's Twenty-One Stories, which was read shortly ago. The same straightforward way of naming, as David Gates did In the preface: “This is not a humble title at all.” Seemingly unrelated, large platters can find lurking clues from the internal logic of the story. Eventually, all the stories become one, The theme that the author really wants to express has gradually emerged from the postmodern way. Postmodernity provides the stage for the freedom of language. It is a text, more like a carnival theater. There is no fixed theme and it is just the greatest meaning.