王家达于上个世纪60年代出现在《人民文学》,是我所熟识的新中国第二代老作家了。他的艺术青春,焕发于八九十年代,但令人不禁又得刮目相看的,却是在新世纪第三年伊始面世的这一部长篇小说新著《所谓作家》。没有想到,他是越老越机智灵活、越圆熟洒脱、越深沉巧妙、越朝气蓬勃了。《所谓作家》,既可以说是一部当今社会喜怒哀乐的“儒林外史”,又可以说是一部借助“儒林”嬉笑怒骂的“现实漫画”。 Wang Jiada appeared in People’s Literature in the 1960s and is the second generation of old writers in new China who I know. His artistic youth, glow in the 80s and 90s, but can not but admired it, but it is in the third year of the new century, the novel comes out of this novel “so-called writer.” Did not expect that he is the older the more tactful flexibility, the more mature and free, the more subtle, more energetic. “The so-called writer” can be said to be “a Confucian monastic history” of emotions and joys and funerals in today’s society, or a “reality comic” based on the ridicule of “Confucianism”.