故事、人物、结构、语言,是小说,尤其是长篇小说的四项基本元素。这四项基本元素,只要一项站得住,小说就有了看头。这站得住的一项,如果是出类拔萃的,该小说就有了传世的可能。这四项元素如果样样俱佳,毫无疑义就是经典之作。上世纪70年代末发端,几乎伴随了整个80年代的文学热期间,从老前辈到文学青年,都期盼着经典诞生,遗憾的是,经典之作并没有应时而现。 Stories, characters, structure, language, are the four basic elements of a novel, especially a novel. These four basic elements, as long as one stands, the novel has a good deal. If this is a standstill, this novel has the possibility of being handed down. If all four elements of these superb, no doubt is the classic. At the end of the 1970s, almost all the literature fever that accompanied the entire 1980s came from the elders to the literary youths. All of them are looking forward to the birth of the classic. Unfortunately, the classic ones do not emerge from time to time.