《秋收记》在成为小说之前,已经在刘汀的笔下行走。它曾是一首诗,歌颂土地、粮食和母亲;它曾是一篇散文,叙述母亲和她的生活哲学。而所有文字都起源于一个场景:月夜,黑魆魆的田野,母亲一个人挥舞镰刀,一颗一颗地把成熟的玉米秸秆割倒,从田垄的这头,到田垄的那头。这一创作缘起仿佛从一开始就是反小说的,寒来暑往、秋收冬藏,时间被静止在看不到头的劳作里,把跌宕起伏的情节杜绝在外,可是,追溯现代小说的发生轨迹,这看似单调的场景,又恰好迫使小说家将叙述对象由外在的故事摹写,转向人物的内心世界。母亲体验到了什么?相比诗歌和散文,小说虚构的难度 “Autumn Harvest Kee” before becoming a novel, has been written in Liu Ting’s pen. It was a poem that celebrated land, food, and mother; it was an essay about the mother and her philosophy of life. And all the texts originated in a scene: the moonlit night, dark fields, the mother waved a sickle alone, one by one to cut the mature corn stalks, from this ridge to the other end of the ridge. The origins of this creation seem to be anti-novels from the very beginning. When the time comes and falls, the time comes to a halt, and the time is stopped in the unobtainable labor and the ups and downs of the plot are eliminated. However, trace the occurrence of modern novels, This seemingly monotonous scene, and just forcing the novelist to narrate the object from the external story to the inner world of the character. What did the mother experience? Compared to poetry and prose, the novel’s fictional difficulty