弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫说:伟大的小说都是了不起的神话故事。他还说过:在一个孩子边跑边喊狼来了,狼来了,而他后面根本没有狼的那一天,就诞生了文学。纳博科夫的这两段话试图回答以下几个问题:第一,文学的本质是什么?第二,文学发生的基源点在哪里。在这两个问题背后,隐藏着第三个问题:谁是那个边跑边喊狼来了的孩子,为什么非是这个孩子要边跑边喊,直到那不存在的狼具备实体,张牙舞爪,就要把他扑倒。前两个问题,留给专家去研究——虽然纳博科夫已经做出了有趣的回答。在我看来,大大小小但凡因为内心本然冲动而提笔叙述和呈现的作者,多多少少都是有被挑选的意味,有一种自己也说不清楚的 Vladimir Nabokov said: Great novels are great myths. He also said that when a child ran and shouted a wolf, the wolf came, and the day after he had no wolf at all, he gave birth to literature. Nabokov’s two passages attempt to answer the following questions: First, what is the essence of literature? Second, where is the source of literature? Behind these two questions, the third question hides: Who is the child who runs and shouts wolves? Why is it that this child should run and shout until the non-existent wolf has a solid body and claws? Put him down. The first two questions leave the experts to study - though Nabokov has made interesting answers. In my opinion, writers and writers, large and small, who write and present themselves because of their intrinsic impulses, are more or less chosen for meaning,