沈从文的小说把读者引入一个全然陌生的世界,那里远离时代的中心,有山清水秀的自然风光和强健朴拙的乡民,保留最具生命力的原始蛮荒的生存状态。这种距离感超出作者的审美期待,自成一种缥缈的虚无的美,如同水面上霭霭的雾气。他用手中的笔构筑了美丽诡异的湘西世界:凭借丰富的想象力,把神话、佛 Shen Congwen’s novels introduce the reader into an alien world, far away from the center of the times, with its beautiful natural scenery and strong, simple and honest villagers, preserving the most viable primitive wild life. This sense of distance beyond the author’s aesthetic expectations, since the formation of a coveted beauty of nothingness, like the mist of water on the mist. He used his pen to build a beautiful and strange world in western Hunan: with rich imagination, the myth, Buddha