小说的叙事语言尽管我们说小说是虚构的艺术,但这种虚构是由语言来呈现的,所以小说的第一要素不是结构或故事,而是语言。小说的存在就是语言的存在,是由语言呈现的现实。无论是虚构的现实、还是想象的现实,我们记忆里的一切都是由语言构成的。所以语言就是形式,小说的任何文本形式,都是由语言开始和呈现的。 Although we say that fiction is a fictional art, this fiction is presented by language, so the first element of the novel is not structure or story, but language. The existence of novels is the existence of language and the reality presented by language. Whether it is a fictional reality or an imagined reality, everything in our memory is made up of words. So the language is the form, any textual form of the novel, all started and presented by the language.