论传记文学的想像、夸张与虚构

从《史记》的《高祖本记》、《淮阴侯列传》、《项羽本纪》、《李斯列传》和《左忠毅公逸事》等古今优秀传记文学作品以及当代传记文学作家马可、郭保林及胡辛等运用虚构和想像的实例,同时结合一些文艺理论家的论述及作者自身在传记写作中的实际体验来看,传记文学是可以在真人真事的基础上进行合理想像、夸张乃至虚构的。同时,传记文学同小说在进行想像、夸张乃至虚构时是有其不同之处的。

On Imagination, Exaggeration and Fiction in Biographic Literature

This is an important issue in the theory of biographic writing.From a new understanding of the truthfulness of biographic works and from the examples of fiction and imagination in famous biographic works such as "The Biography of Liu Bang","Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty","The Biography of Xiang Yu","King of State Chu" and other biographic stories in "Historical Records by Sima Qian",the famous ancient Chinese historian and biography writer and works by modern Chinese biography writers like Ma Ke,Guo Baolin and Hu Xin,the writer of this thesis puts forward his idea that writers of biographic literature can use reasonable imagination,exaggeration or even fiction in biography writing on the basis of real events of the persons involved,citing remarks of literature critics and based on the writer's own experience in biography writing,analysing the differences between imagination,exaggeration and fiction in novels and those in biographic literature,and pointing out what is proper and reasonable imagination,exaggeration and fiction in biographic writing.