一小说家创造事件。与之相比,其余的都是次要任务。因为——正如布朗肖所说,叙事之奥秘在于它不是对事件的讲述,而是事件本身。它是面向事件的一次出发,凭借某种叙事魔法,向世界发出召唤,实现其自身,让事件真正降临。小说作者(那个正在写小说的人,而不是那种职业)理当拥有这种野心。唯其如此,他才会像一个阴谋家那样小心翼翼,生怕弄错一个词句、一个时间顺序,或者让一个人物出现在不该出现的地方。 A novelist creates events. In contrast, the rest are secondary tasks. Because - as Brownies said, the mystery of narrative lies in the fact that it is not a narrative of an event, but an incident itself. It is an event-oriented departure, by virtue of some kind of narrative magic, to the world call, to achieve its own, so that the incident really come. The novelist (who is writing a novel, not the kind of occupation) deserved to have this ambition. Only then would he be as cautious as a conspirator, afraid of making a mistake, a chronological order, or having a character appear where it should not be.