阿来的长篇小说《尘埃落定》《空山》与中短篇小说《月光下的银匠》《行刑人尔依》以及作为《空山》“边角料”的“人物素描”“乡村风物”构成了颇有意味的对话关系,呈现出阿来历史书写的意义与问题。阿来历史书写的难度与困境,不仅与他的精神姿态、叙述立场、历史伦理相关,而且,在阿来历史书写的背后,是整个二十世纪八九十年代以来的中国文学历史想象的匮乏与单一。 Ahlai’s novels Dust Set and Empty Mountain are closely related to short and mid-story novels Silversmith in the Moonlight and Elixir of the Executor, as well as the sketches of rural sketches, "Constitutes a rather meaningful dialogue, showing the meaning and problems of Ah Lai history writing. The difficulty and predicament of Ah Lai’s history writing is not only related to his spiritual attitude, narrative position and historical ethics. Moreover, behind Ah Ah’s historical writing is the lack of historical imagination of Chinese literature since the 1980’s and 1990’s And single.