徐则臣,作为新世纪最有代表性的中国新锐作家之一,其作品已被评论者从诸多角度细致解读。然而,当评论者将目光集中在现代主义旗帜下关注其“纯文学”的纯正文气时,却将徐则臣小说中蓬勃的野气忽略了。事实上,细读徐则臣小说,从“花街”到“京城”的江湖场景;侠肝义胆的江湖人物;传奇、曲折的江湖叙事情节以及传统游侠小说的江湖叙事手法,总能在不经意处顽强地浮现出来。这意味着:徐则臣小说固然选取了西方现代主义小说的思想意蕴和叙事手法,但同时也接续了中国小说史上的江湖叙 As one of the most representative new writers in China in the new century, Xu Zechen’s work has been interpreted critically by critics from many angles. However, when the commenters focused their attention on the pure tone of “pure literature” under the banner of modernism, they neglected the vigor of Xu Zechen’s novels. In fact, reading Xu Zechen’s novels, from the “Flower Street” to the “Capital City” scene of the rivers and lakes; valiant and courageous rivers and lakes characters; legendary, tortuous rivers and lakes narratives and the novels of rivers and lakes narratives of traditional ranger novels can always inadvertently Tenaciously emerge. This means that although Xu Zechen’s novel has taken the ideological connotation and narrative tactics of Western modernist novels, at the same time, it also inherits the literary criticism of the literary world in the history of Chinese novels