英国作家格雷厄姆·格林在他最满意的小说《名誉领事》中尝试总结了他看似充满矛盾、实则充满张力的现代小说观。通过主人公阅读习惯的描写和与作家朋友的对话,《名誉领事》从观念到“实验”地体现了格林对多个对立选项如跨界阅读与多重身份、冒险小说与严肃文学、传统叙事与现代主义、严酷政治与温暖美学等的交替与交融。格林坚持大叙事传统、同时借鉴现代主义表现手法;汲取侦探和冒险小说的类型写作框架、又加入严肃文学关于善恶生死等重要命题的全新思考;在政治与美学二者间维持动态平衡、创造“作为高尚艺术的冒险小说”;格林的小说因此拥有让传统和现代元素相互交融和彼此彰显的独特美学风格。 British writer Graham Greene tries his best to summarize his modern novel view which is full of contradictions but in reality is full of tension in his most honorable novel “Honorary Consul.” Through the description of the hero’s reading habits and his dialogue with writers and friends, Honorary Consul reflects “experimentally” from concept to “nature” of Green’s multiple oppositional options such as cross-reading and multiple identities, adventurous novels and serious literature, traditional narrative And modernism, harsh politics and warm aesthetics, such as the alternation and blending. Green insists on the tradition of big narrative while drawing lessons from modernist approaches. He draws on the typewriting framework of detective and adventure novels, joins the serious literature on new thinking on important propositions such as the life and death of good and evil, maintains the dynamic balance between politics and aesthetics, and creates “Adventurous Novel as a noble Art ”; Green’s novels thus have a unique aesthetic style that blends traditional and modern elements with each other.