在进入葛芳的小说之前,我们先阅读了她的散文集《空庭》,由于文体的规范,散文因其非虚构而能真实地让作家敞开自我,从而使读者能更多地捕捉到写作者的许多秘密。正如葛芳自己所言:“散文在我的观念里,也许更能直接体现出与现实短兵相接的对抗。在孤独和艰难的境遇里,散文直抵心灵。它敏感的神经,牵着非理性,于无秩序的生活中,传达着无以言说的忧伤与疼痛。”(《〈空庭〉自序》)事实正是如此,在其后的小说阅读中,我们时时看到掩映在文字之林中作家真切的身影,那些如草蛇灰线般 Before we enter Ge Fang’s novel, we read her essay collection “Empty Chamber”. Because of its normative style, prose can truly open the writer because of its non-fiction so that the reader can capture more of the writing Many of the author’s secrets. As Ge Fang himself said: “Prose in my view, may be more directly reflect the confrontation with the actual shortcomings.In the lonely and difficult situation, the essay goes straight to the soul.Its sensitive nerves, holding irrational, In disordered life, convey unspeakable sadness and pain. ”(“ Empty court ”preface") In fact, in the subsequent reading of the novel, we always see the shade of the forest True figure in the writer, those grass-snake gray line