我虽滥竽中国比较文学学会会员之列,又写过一些别人认为是比较文学的文章;但是我对比较文学实在没有下过工夫,视野狭隘,涉猎肤浅,从来不敢以比较文学家自居.现在承张伟女士垂青,送来一部分她的力作《“多余人”论纲》的稿子,这对我简直是启蒙之举,“多余的人”的问题,我过去没有注意过.她向我索序,我实无此能力,只能写几句介乎离题与切题之间的话,以酬她的厚意. Although I started as a member of the Chinese Society of Comparative Literature, I also wrote articles that others considered as comparative literature. However, I did not make any effort to compare the literature. I was narrow-minded and superficial. I never dared to compare myself with comparative writers. Now, as Miss CHEUNG Wai-ho has shown her affection, sending some of her manuscripts to her “Outline of Excess” is a question I have simply enumerated, “Excess man.” I did not notice it in the past. Sorcery, I really do not have the ability, can only write a few words from the topic of separation and questioning, in order to reward her intentions.