据说艾伟的《南方》在完成之前曾打算定名《第七天》,但因为余华的那部饱受热议的作品出版在前,于是改用了现在的书名。而《南方》所讲述的,的确是一个发生在七天之内的故事:第一天,凶杀案随着无名女尸暴露,第七天,案情的谜底浮出水面。但与余华将中国社会的极端现实一一罗列成为“新闻串烧”不同,艾伟在这部结构相似的作品中,无疑更加讲求人物的命运纠葛、来龙去脉和与历史背景的互动关系。于是,表面上七天的故事,实际涵盖了中国 It is said that Ai Wei’s “South” planned to name “the seventh day” before it was completed, but because Yu Hua’s hot-hit works were published earlier, he switched to the current title. What the South tells about is indeed a story that took place within seven days: On the first day, as the name of the unknown woman corpse was revealed on the first day of the murder, the mystery of the case surfaced on the seventh day. However, unlike Yu Hua’s listing of the extreme realities of Chinese society as one of the “news skewers”, Ai Wei undoubtedly paid more attention to the fate of the characters, their context and their interaction with the historical context in this structurally similar work. Thus, on the surface of the seven-day story, actually covered China