《江南三部曲》是格非从上世纪90年代末开始构思的。当时他打算用地方志的结构和方式,延续现代主义的表现方法,描述100多年来的中国近现代社会。但一方面由于对过去的写作方式产生了疑虑,同时也觉得在一本书中概括100年的历史实在过于困难,所以就有了写作三部曲的念头。到2003年前后动笔写作时, “Gangnam Trilogy” is Ge Fei from the late 90s of last century began to conceive. At that time, he intended to use the structure and manner of local chronicles to continue the performance of modernist methods and describe the modern Chinese society over the past 100 years. However, on the one hand, he had doubts about the way of writing in the past and at the same time felt that it was too difficult to summarize the 100-year history in a book. Therefore, he had the idea of ​​a trilogy of writing. When writing about 2003,