沈从文的神话书写是中国现代作家“重述神话”作品中表现形态较为独特的,他的小说中并不能寻找到明显的神话故事,却弥漫着一种浓烈的神话气息:其湘西题材小说的时空场景表现出一种超越现实时空的神话性,而这种独特的时空构架也使得沈从文的湘西题材小说呈现出隽永的生命力量和真挚情感。
Shen Congwen's naythical writing is unique in the modem Chinese writers' "recreation of myth" be- cause the mythical feature is intangible in his novels. The time and space setting in Shen's novels demonstrates a kind of mythical feature with ~nrealistic time and space, which makes his novels showing never-resting life and sincere emotion.