时间与空间都是小说的基本构成要素。中国人强烈的历史意识让人们格外重视小说中的时间表达,这从对小说时间问题的研究中也充分反映出来。相对而言,小说空间问题的研究则颇显冷清,在理论上也缺乏可资借鉴的有效资源。而时空作为彼此关联极为紧密的两个小说要素之间的复杂关系则更未得到足够充分的重视,相关研究也寥若晨星。国外理论界在长篇小说“时空体”方面的理论成果也并 Time and space are the basic elements of the novel. The strong historical consciousness of the Chinese people makes people pay special attention to the time expression in the novel, which is also fully reflected in the research on the time problem of the novel. Relatively speaking, the study of the problem of novel space is quite deserted, in theory, there is no effective resource available for reference. However, the complicated relations between the two novel elements, whose time and space are extremely closely related to each other, have yet to be given sufficient enough attention, and the related research is rare. The theoretical achievements of foreign theorists in the novel “space-time body ” also and