阿城的《闲话闲说:中国世俗与中国小说》,1998年2月由作家出版社出版,是一册八万字的小书,印制得相当讲究,内文排得疏朗舒缓,和书的精神气息颇为谐合。阿城应该满意的。阿城这些年的行踪很有些飘忽,如同云游海外的布衣,我们只能在他的文字中隐约得到一些消息。以这种距离和闲游的心态,来闲说中国世俗与中国小说,可能时有“偶得藏道,幽神自得”之乐。他对 Acheng’s Gossip: China’s Secular and Chinese Novels, published by the Writers’ Press in February 1998, is a small book of 80,000 words printed in a very stressful and elegant manner, The spirit of the atmosphere is quite harmonious. Acheng should be satisfied. Acheng’s whereabouts of these years are quite erratic, as the commoner traveling abroad, we can only get some information in his writing. With this kind of distance and the mentality of leisure travel, let us idlely talk about the Chinese secular and Chinese novels. There may be “occasional possession of Tibetan Buddhism and seclusion”. He’s right