套用那个和卡佛有关的句式:当我们在谈论网络文学经典问题的时候,我们在谈论什么?或者,在谈论这一问题之前,也许我们需要解决的更主要的问题是:当我们在谈论经典的时候,我们在谈论什么?《红楼梦》应该算是经典了,可我在课堂上问过我的学生,遗憾的是他们其中百分之九十没有通读过哪怕一遍《红楼梦》;莫言在获得诺贝尔文学奖之后,其经典地位更加牢固了,但在中国真正读过莫言作品的普通读者恐怕寥寥无几,即便是一些中文系的学生,也往往只是简单翻看过《红高粱》。布鲁姆在研究“西方正典”的 Applying to that Carver-related sentence: What are we talking about when we are talking about classics in cyberspace? Perhaps the more important question that we need to address before we talk about it is that when we are talking about Classic, we are talking about? “Dream of Red Mansions” should be considered a classic, but I asked my students in the classroom, unfortunately, 90% of them have not read it even once again, “Dream of Red Mansions”; Mo Yan access to After the Nobel Prize for Literature, its classic status has become more solidified. However, there are only a few ordinary readers who really read Mo Yan’s works in China. Even some Chinese students tend to simply read Red Sorghum. Broome is studying “Western canon ”