在《平乐镇伤心故事集》中,颜歌描绘了一幅幅融合了日常与奇幻的川西小镇的市民生活场景,有的故事呈现了残酷、激烈的青春期心理(《照妖镜》),有的场景则表现了宁静而温暖的人情体验(《三一茶会》),但无论是故事人物对于金钱和欲望的妥协,还是对于精神生活与自由的追求,全部都被作者压缩在一个沙盘般的微观小镇图景中,这就是她所虚构的川西小镇“平乐镇”的故事,也是我们所有人关于社会剧烈变迁的20世纪90年代末至21世纪初的中 In “Pingle’s Sad Story Collection”, Yan Ge depicts a scene of civic life that combines daily and fantastic Chuanxi Township with stories of brutal and fierce adolescent psychology (“Trinity Tea Party”), but whether the story’s compromise on money and desire or the pursuit of spiritual life and freedom are all compressed by the author in a sand-table style In the picture of the micro-town, this is the story of her fictional western town of “Pingle Town,” and also the story of all of us about the drastic changes in society from the late 1990s to early 2000s