格非是一位对小说创作路数有着精致要求的学者型作家。从20世纪80年代中期开始的先锋文学写作,到90年代“江南三部曲”的创作微调,进入新世纪以来,《隐身衣》的问世则是其创作发生关键性转向的标志。而这一转变,不但意味着形式实验面临如何突破自身限度的考验,而且暗示了格非小说创作将开启关注社会现实、拷问复杂人性的新维度。 Gefei is a scholarly writer who has meticulous demands on the number of novel creations. From the avant-garde literary writing started in the mid-1980s to the fine-tuning of the creation of the “Southern Three Trilogy” in the 1990s, the advent of “stealthy clothing” has been the hallmark of its critical turn in writing since the beginning of the new century. And this change not only means that the formal experiment is facing the test of how to break through its own limit, but also implies that Gefei’s creation of novel will open a new dimension of paying attention to social reality and torturing complex human nature.