朱大路先生的长篇小说《上海爷叔》问世已近一年了。年过知命的大路待人和蔼,脸上常挂着浅浅的笑容。他在《文汇报》笔会部编杂文多年,可他不写杂文,他写散文、写传奇、写小说,而且所写作品总以笑为主旨。他的第一个长篇写带泪的笑,第二个长篇写无奈的笑,这部《上海爷叔》又写什么笑呢?如果我的直觉不错,我猜这回他是写了惨淡的笑。欧阳修《秋声赋》云,“夫秋之为状也,其色惨淡,烟霏云敛”。大路塑造的小说主人公、费姓上海爷叔,恰在一汪秋色中,在抗战胜利的吹呼声中,重返上海滩,展开其色彩斑斓的传奇人生的。老爷叔本为常州人,年轻时就到上海学生意,成了阿拉上海人,而今年过 Mr. Zhu Da Road’s novel “Shanghai uncle” appeared for nearly a year. Over the life-long road to treat people kind, often with a shallow smile on his face. He wrote many essays in the “Penghuh” Pen Club for many years, but he did not write essays. He wrote essays, wrote legends, and wrote novels. His works are always based on laughter. His first long chapter with tears of laughter, the second long written helpless smile, this “Shanghai uncle” and what to write smile? If my intuition is good, I guess this time he wrote a bleak laugh. Ouyang Xiu “autumn sound Fu” cloud, “husband-like autumn, its color bleak, smoke Fei convergence”. The protagonist of the novels shaped by the main road, Shanghai surname uncle last name fee, just in a bout of autumn, in the vocal cries of the victory of the war, return to the beach, expand its colorful legendary life. Uncle Ben is a native of Changzhou. When he was a young man, he came to Shanghai to become a native of Shanghai. This year