我一直以为,一个成熟的小说家,他的写作一定是有他的地理的,就像莫言,他的小说地理在山东高密,而马尔克斯写作的小说地理一定在哥伦比亚。对于小说家的写作故乡这一说,我是持认同态度的,因为作家的写作故乡大多是他真正意义上的故乡,这里是他生命的出发点,也是他最初的情感和精神成长的始发地,但小说家的故乡地理与他的故乡还是有区别的,区别在于前者具有审美,后者只是传统意义上的故乡。也就是说,小说家的故乡只能 I always thought that a mature novelist whose writing must have had his geography, as Mo Yan, his novel Geography in Shandong Gaomi, while Marquez's novels geographically must have been in Colombia. For the novelist's hometown of writing, I hold the same attitude because the author's hometown for writing is mostly his true hometown, the starting point of his life and the origin of his initial emotional and spiritual growth , But the novelist's hometown geography and his hometown are still different, the difference is that the former has the aesthetic, the latter is only the traditional hometown. In other words, the hometown of novelists only