墨白的“颍河镇”系列小说,致力于反映20世纪下半叶中国历史在“颍河镇”留下的痕迹。中篇小说《风车》是其代表作之一,小说呈现的是20世纪50年代“大跃进”前后颍河镇的地方生活景观,其中修建池塘和风车等部分情节,在墨白此后写作的《雨中的墓园》等作品中有所延续,是可以放在一起来谈的。阅读《风车》,很容易联想到英国作家乔治·奥威尔的政治寓言小说《动物农场》。 Ink White “Yinghe Town ” series of novels, is committed to reflect the second half of the 20th century Chinese history in “Yinghe town ” left traces. The novella “Windmill” is one of its representative works. The novel presents the landscape of local life in Yinghe Town before and after the “Great Leap Forward” in the 1950s. Some of the plots such as ponds and windmills were built, Cemetery in the Rain and other works have been extended, we can put together to talk about. Reading The Windmill, it is easy to think of the political allegory “Animal Farm” by British writer George Orwell.