小说家谈小说,不必披上学术与理论的外衣,可以畅所欲言,倒常常能给人以教益。小说家不喜欢布道者这个角色,宁愿以经验论者自居,谈一点技巧和故事的经脉,且不避讳偏见。像纳博科夫写《文学讲稿》,条分缕析讲小说,已算得上是高头讲章,一派学院风范,可他总是不忘记跟 Novelists talk about novels, do not have to put on the academic and theoretical coat, you can speak freely, often give people to teach. Novelists do not like the role of preacher, preferring to empirically evaluate themselves as an experienced person, talk about the meridians of tricks and stories without prejudice. Like Nabokov to write “literary lecture notes,” articles about the novel, has been regarded as the top sermons, one school style, but he always do not forget to follow