宋长江的中篇新作《我爹是英雄》是一篇纪实小说,读之过瘾。多年来,中国文坛流行一种庸俗的观念,以为小说总要有些欧美味、虚无气,否则不管写得多么好,都不够档次。世界视野、现代眼光对于一个作家当然重要,但是强不知以为知、装腔作势就贻笑大方了。而事实上,中国也一直有不乏现代眼光却并不迷信时尚的作家,他们执着地从现实大地出发,向灵魂深处诘问,写出真实生命的喜与悲、歌与哭。我认为后一种创 Song Changjiang’s new novel “My father is a hero” is a documentary novel, enjoyable. Over the years, the Chinese literary world is popularized with a vulgar idea that the novel should always have some European and American flavor, and it should be of no air or no matter how good it is written. Of course, the vision of the world and the modern vision are of course important to a writer. However, I do not know it well and my pretense is laughable. In fact, China has always had a modern-looking writer who is not a superstitious fashionist. They persistently start from the real world, ask questions in the depths of their souls, and write out the joy and sadness, songs and crying of real life. I think the latter kind of innovation