本家好友陈歆耕,曾为《文学报》主编,一手创办了该报的专版《新批评》。可以毫不夸张地说,没有他的赏识和鼓劲,没有他的这个《新批评》,就不会有近年来为我赢得若干美誉的那些批评文字,使我这个已经过了气的小说家,居然成了“批评界一颗冉冉升起的新星”(赵玫语)。歆耕退休后不久,忽一日,我从报上广告看到一家文学期刊的目录,赫赫然列于头条的小说,作者竟是陈歆 Chen Xingeng, a friend of this family, once wrote the chief editor of the “Literary Journal,” and set up a special edition of the newspaper “New Criticism.” It is no exaggeration to say that without his appreciation and encouragement, without his “new criticism,” there will be no criticisms that have won me several honorary titles in recent years and made me an overly angry novelist. Actually became a “rising star in critics ” (Zhao Mei language). Not long after Xin Geng retired, suddenly one day, I saw the catalog of a literary periodical from the newspaper advertisement, He Hulan’s novels listed in the headlines, and the author was Chen Xin