宋世明的短篇小说《流沙》回望上世纪八十年代中期的苏北乡镇,一种专属于中国“前现代”时期的慵懒“村气”氤氲生起。作家笔下首创的“村气”二字实颇为传神,顿时将地域的封闭性与人群意识的钝拙醒目点染开来。但值得注意的是,讲这样的一类乡土故事,“村气”是踏板,也往往是羁绊。而宋世明叙事策略的精巧之处在于,首先让“我”隐在乡民之中,令 Song Shiming's short story, “Quicksand”, looks back to the villages and towns in northern Jiangsu in the mid-1980s, a lazy “village atmosphere ” dedicated to the era of China “Pre-modern ”. Writer's first “village gas” is quite vividly the word, suddenly the geographical closure and the crowd's awareness of the obscure eye-catching dots. However, it is worth noting that, in speaking of such a kind of local story, “village gas” is a pedal and often a fetter. The delicate tactic of Song Shiming's narrative strategy lies in the fact that letting “I” be hidden among the villagers first,