乔纳森卡勒曾经说过:“小说比任何一种文学形式,甚至比任何一种文字,都更能胜任愉快地充当起社会用以自我构想的样板。”[1]八十年代中后期以来,随着政治经济体制改革的不断深入,中国进入城市化快速发展的新时期,其显著特征是大规模农民离土热潮的涌起。青壮年农民纷纷涌入城市,成为中国现代化城市建设的体力劳动者,他们拥有了共同的名字:农民工。与城市的日新月异相对照的是中国广大农村的凄冷萧瑟,曾经充满诗情画 Jonathan Caller once said: “Novels are more capable than any other literary form, even more than any kind of writing, happily serving as a model for society to envision itself.” [1] In the mid-to-late 1980s Since the reform of the political and economic system has been deepening, China has entered a new era of rapid urbanization. The notable feature of this is the surging upsurge of the large-scale peasants leaving the country. Young and middle-aged peasants have poured into cities and become manual laborers in the process of building China’s modern cities. They share the common name of migrant workers. In contrast to the ever-changing city, the desolation and bleakness of the vast rural areas in China were once full of poetic paintings