钱钟书不但以小说《围城》等著作名世,而且是个大学问家。有人把他的一部学术著作《管锥篇》作了番统计,所征引的西方学者作家近千人,被征引的著作达一千七八百种,可见他涉猎之广博。夫人杨绛的回忆文章中曾讲过两个故事:四十年代,钱先生任教于清华大学,有一次,一位研究唐诗的学生,为了考证一个冷僻的典故,在图书馆中遍寻不获,正巧碰 Qian Zhongshu not only in the novel “siege” and other writings, but also a university asked home. Someone put one of his academic works, “The Pipe Cone,” made a statistic. The number of western scholars and writers who were cited nearly a thousand and a few thousand or eight hundred kinds of books were cited. In his memoir about his wife, Yang Jiang, two stories were told: In the 1940s, Mr. Qian taught at Tsinghua University. Once, a student studying Tang poetry searched for a rare allusion in the library Just happened to touch