作为西方后现代主义小说思潮中的一种新型小说样态,元小说以叙事露迹、拼贴、戏仿等叙事策略突显小说的虚构特性,引导读者重新思考虚构与现实、艺术与生活之间的辩证关系。以元小说理论及其特征观照木心的散文体小说《空房》,可发现其蕴含着表征叙事策略的典型元小说因素,如作者露迹、人物不确定性、周遭环境模糊性及碎片式创作等,故作为现实幻影的《空房》属于元小说。 As a new type of novels in the post-modernism novels in the West, the novels emphasize the fictional features of the novel through narrative strategies such as narrative deconstruction, collage and parody, and guide the reader to rethink the relationship between fiction and reality, between art and life The dialectical relationship. Based on the theory of metafiction and its features, the author explores the “empty room” of prose in the style of prose, and finds that there are typical elements of metafiction that characterize narrative tactics, such as the author’s exposure to traces, the uncertainty of characters, the ambiguity of surrounding environment and the fragmentation So, as the real phantom of the “empty room” belongs to the meta novels.