我说小说是一件铜器,并非准确地说出了小说的历史和质地,也并非我的小说趣味与理想,我只是对当今社会生活中的小说存在状况作某种比喻,还隐含了我对小说的情怀与期待,希望小说尽可能不是一件涂满垢尘的铜器。我读完《革命·历史·小说》这部书,终于知道有读书人悉心照料着小说,拾回几经散失的小说意义,并赋予小说这个事物以亮 I said that the novel is a piece of bronze ware. It does not accurately tell the history and texture of the novel. It is not the taste and ideal of my novel. I only give some analogy to the existence of novels in today’s social life, My feelings and expectations of the novel, I hope the novel is not as dusty bronze. After I finished reading “Revolutionary, Historical and Fiction,” I finally learned that some of the scholars had taken good care of the novel, recovered the scattered meaning of the novel, and gave the novel something bright