新时期以小城镇为叙事对象的小说,在叙说文化急剧转型期的中国社会现实时,一个重要的主题就是公共权力在某些领域内存在某种程度上的缺位。其主要表现有:金钱实力绑架、家族势力挟持、野蛮暴力操控,其深层的原因是:这个时期奉行经济实利主义,注重宗法血缘关系、淡薄法制观念、畅销社会达尔文主义。 In the new period, novels focused on small cities and towns, an important theme in describing the rapid social transformation of China’s society, is that there is a certain absence of public power in some areas. Its main manifestations are: the abduction of money and strength, the holding of family forces and the manipulation of savage violence. The deeper reason is that: during this period, they pursued economic materialism, patriarchal blood relationship, light legal concept and popular social Darwinism.