迷舟

by Ge Fei, 格非

《迷舟》是茅盾文学奖得主格非的中短篇小说集，收录中短篇小说七部。这几篇小说多是以“记忆”为载体，在循环往复的回忆中，时间与空间的秩序感失效，故事常常呈现出充满着内在矛盾却又耐人寻味的结局。

其中《褐色鸟群》是格非的代表作，小说讲述了作者“我”来到一个叫做“水边”的居所写一部书。有一天一个自称为“棋”的女人来访，于是我对“棋”讲述起我与一个穿栗树色靴子的女人的故事。小说不断吸引着读者投入到故事中，读者也在阅读的过程中不断地产生怀疑，反复对照叙述者的说法进行审视和判断，而由于故事主人公记忆的不可靠，一切讲述又似乎呈现出悬浮的不真实感。

另外一篇《迷舟》是格非的成名之作，小说以萧旅长失踪数天为悬念展开，接着以“第一天”“第二天”，直至“第七天”这种严格的时间序列一步步暗示出萧如何最终踏进人生的灾难的。格非用平实冷静的叙述剔发命运变幻莫测的微妙精义，使写实的笔触也平添了神秘的恐怖气势。“迷舟”这个标题便是人生不可知的主题象征。

292 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1989

About the author

Ge Fei (Chinese: 格非; pinyin: Gé Fēi; Wade–Giles: Ke Fei, born 1964) is the pen name of novelist Liu Yong (刘勇), considered by many scholars and critics to be one of the most significant of the Chinese avant-garde writers that rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ge Fei was born in Dantu, Jiangsu, in 1964. He studied Chinese literature at East China Normal University and, after graduating in 1985, began to teach there and publish short stories and novellas. He read widely during his studies, but has since noted that he was particularly influenced by Borges, Faulkner and Robbe-Grillet. Some of his early, more experimental works were translated into English in the 1990s, such as "The Lost Boat", "Remembering Mr. Wu You" and "Green Yellow".

One of Ge Fei's most celebrated works is the "Jiangnan Trilogy", which explores the concept of utopia and contains many allusions to Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber.

In 2016, The Invisibility Cloak (which had won both the Lu Xun Literary Prize and the Lao She Literary Award in 2014) was the first of his longer works to be translated into English.

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