在2006年底的一次访谈中,莫言谈起自己的早期作品时提到,“几乎没有人是一下子就会写出很成熟的作品,大多数作家刚开始时都是模仿”(1)。这番议论是基于此前一些读者质疑他“军艺”阶段的某些创作有抄袭或模仿之嫌发出的。其中,莫言早期极富特色的一篇代表作《民间音乐》被质疑与二十世纪六十年代美国女作家卡森·麦卡勒斯的《伤心咖啡馆之歌》具有相似性,模仿的痕迹很重。对于这种模仿,莫言自己的观点是:“这算不上多大的耻辱,当然也绝 In an interview in late 2006, Mo Yan mentioned in his early work that ”almost no one can write very mature works in a single moment, and most writers imitate from the very beginning“ (1) . This discussion is based on the suspicion of some readers who suspected that some of his creations during the ”military art“ stage were plagiarized or imitated. Among them, Mo Yan’s early very representative masterpiece ”folk music“ was questioned with the ”sad song of the caffe“ of the American woman writer Carson McCullers in the 1960s. The traces of imitation are very similar weight. For this imitation, Mo Yan’s own point of view is: ”This is not much shame, of course, must