在南方写作的世界里,20世纪美国文坛泰斗威廉·福克纳,以及被王德威称为中国当代“天生是个说故事的好手”苏童,无疑是这个文学想象世界里的佼佼者。他们一个在美国的南方,一个在中国的南方,彼此间相隔了整整一个太平洋,但他们对“南方”的情结却让他们深深地纠缠在一起,我们可以 In the southern writing world, William Faulkner, the twentieth-century American literary critic, and the contemporary China by Wang Dewei, “born a good storyteller,” is undoubtedly the best in this world of literary imagination. One in the south of the United States and the other in the south of China, they are all separated from each other by a whole Pacific Ocean. However, their complex ties to “the South” keep them deeply entangled. We can