评莫言(《东吴学术》2013年第1期)陈众议莫言获奖,咱高兴归高兴,但话要说回来:莫言不是唯一优秀的中国作家,诺贝尔文学奖更不是唯一的文学标准。被我指为“软肋”的方面,在别人看来也许是优点亦未可知。这就是文学的奇妙,更是经典作家的奇妙之所在。在此,我不妨先列举一二,以供探讨或善意批评和反批评的生发。第一根“软肋”:缺乏节制。譬如想象力,其蓬勃程度于莫言可谓“成也萧何,败也萧何”。这当然是极而言之。正所谓彼亦一是非,此亦一是非,凡事都有两面性,甚至多 Comment Mo Yan (“Soochow Academic” 2013 No. 1) Chen Zhongyan Mo Yan winning, we happy to happy, but then to say: Mo Yan is not the only outstanding Chinese writer, the Nobel Prize for Literature is more than the only literary standard. What I refer to as “soft underbelly” may seem an advantage or an unknown to others. This is the wonder of literature, but also the wonderful place of the classic writer. Here, I would like to cite a few examples for the discussion of germinal development in good faith and counter-criticism. The first “soft underbelly ”: lack of restraint. For example, the imagination, the extent of its booming Mo can be described as This is of course the extreme. The so-called one from the right to wrong, this also from right to wrong, everything has two sides, even more