莫言获得诺贝尔文学奖后,“讲故事的人”成了文学界的热词,新时期以来的三十多年,中国文学在观念追逐、思潮涌动方面从未停歇过脚步。小说里新观念迭出,但人物消失、故事退隐却成潮流。直到近十年来,文学界才开始集体意识到故事的重要性,追逐观念是图新的过程,却损伤了小说的品质。曾几何时,认为强调故事是“低一等”的小说特性,思想性才是小说现代性的体现。近年来,越来越多的小说家意识到,消解故 After Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, “The Storyteller ” has become a hot word in literary circles. For more than thirty years since the new period, Chinese literature has never stopped in pursuing concepts and surging in thoughts. The novel in the new ideas one after another, but the characters disappear, but the trend of retirement into the story. Until the past ten years, literary circles began to collectively realize the importance of the story. Pursuing concepts is a new process of the plan, but the quality of the novel is damaged. Once upon a time, thinking of the novel as emphasizing that the story is a “lower first class” is the manifestation of the modernity of the novel. In recent years, more and more novelists are aware of it and eliminate it