小说家常常像一个建筑师,他将自己的记忆像蜘蛛织网一样,编织出另一重时空,让读者深陷其中。在王啸峰的《隐秘花园》中,小说家的时间就是在苏州古城的大街小巷这个空间中铺陈,他是时间的捕手,让时间凝滞了,结晶了。同时又因了神秘与不确定元素的加入,使得小说虚实相生,玄机迭出,趣味盎然。这种虚虚实实,交错杂陈的情景,会让我想到他的散文写作。啸峰小说有散文化的意趣,比如说《抄表人》《炖生敲》《萤火虫》等,都是有故事内核的散文。多年前,读他散文时,我跟他说,你 Novelist is often like an architect, he woven his memory like a spiderweb, woven into another time and space, so that readers deep into them. In Wang Xiaofeng’s “Secret Garden”, the novelist’s time is laid out in the streets of the ancient city of Suzhou. He is the catcher of time, allowing time to stagnate and crystallize. At the same time because of the mysterious and uncertain elements to join, making the fiction reality, mysterious opportunity after another, interesting. This virtual reality, staggered scenarios, will make me think of his essay writing. Xiaofeng novel has the meaning of prose, for example, “meter reading” “Stew Health Knock” “Firefly”, etc., are the core of the prose essay. Years ago, when I read his essay, I told him, you