放眼当下时代的中国文坛,那些思想艺术风格成熟的作家,都在以小说虚构的方式,在纸上想象建构着自己带有标志性的地标式艺术建筑。莫言有他的高密东北乡,贾平凹有他的商州世界,迟子建有她东北的白山黑水,而艾伟,则一直在努力建构着独属于他自己的永城世界。只要略加关注,即不难发现,艾伟差不多全部的小说故事,都发生在这个名叫永城的南方城市里。《南方》(载《人民文学》2015年第1期)也不例外。这部长 Looking at the contemporary Chinese literary world, those writers who have a mature style of thought and art are imagining and constructing their own iconic landmark architecture on paper in a fictional way. Mo Yan has his high-density northeast township, Jia Pingwa has his Shangzhou world, Chi Zijian has her northeast Baishan blackwater, and Ai Wei, has been trying to construct an exclusive world of his own forever. As long as a little attention, that is not difficult to find, Ai Wei almost all of the story of the novel, have occurred in the southern city called Yongcheng. “South” (contained “People’s Literature” 2015 first period) is no exception. This minister