茅盾的短篇小说创作,比起他的中、长篇来,数量不算太多。茅盾自己曾经说过:“至于短篇小说,我写得不多。因为我觉得写短篇小说并不是容易的事,或许比写长篇还难些”。他从1928年创作第一篇短篇小说《创造》起,到1948年写完最后一个短篇《春天》止,20年间只写了50余篇短篇小说,其中虽不乏一些脍灸人口的佳作,但却经历了一个曲折的发展过程。这一过程大致可以分为四个阶段。 Mao Dun’s short story creation, compared to his, lengthy, the number is not too much. Mao Dun himself once said: “As for the short story, I write very much because I think it is not easy to write short stories, maybe more difficult to write than to write long.” He started his first short story creation in 1928, finished his last short story “Spring” in 1948, and wrote more than 50 short stories in 20 years. Although there are some masterpieces to moxibustion the population, But experienced a tortuous development process. This process can be roughly divided into four stages.