小说所以要有一个好的故事,是因为它环环相扣,悬念迭起而使读者像磁针被磁石吸引,但这又并不是作家的最终目的。在作家看,故事仅是社会的、哲学的、美学的,或者说是文化的载体。作家总是希望,甚至祈求读者能透过这些载体看出或感悟到其后面的深刻意义。王蒙认为小说中的故事如果作为独立的文学本体范畴看,它有以下两种功能:“一、故事本身就有意义……故事是文学也是人生的一种风景、风 The novel has a good story because it is closely linked to the suspense, making readers like magnets attracted by magnets, but this is not the writer’s ultimate goal. In the writer’s view, the story is only a social, philosophical, aesthetic, or cultural carrier. Writers always hope and even pray that readers can see through these carriers or realize the profound meaning behind them. Wang Meng believes that if the story in the novel is regarded as an independent category of literary ontology, it has the following two functions: First, the story itself makes sense. The story is a landscape of literature and life,