论宋代传奇小说叙事的实录色彩

传奇小说的"立身之本"在于虚构,即创作者有意识地虚构故事,借故事来传达主观情志,但宋代传奇小说在虚构的同时,还保留了实录的叙事风格,以期备补史阙。这在宋传奇的题目、开头、结尾和语言上都有所体现。探其原因,一方面,宋传奇的文体渊源可上溯至史传,实录是宋传奇对史传叙事方法的一种继承;另一方面,在宋人的小说观念里,文言小说仍是史书的附庸,因此应当与史书一样秉笔实录。宋代传奇小说对实录补史的追求,是文言小说自身发展规律与宋代时代精神结合的产物。

Research on Faithful Recording as A Aarrative Style of Legend Fiction of Song Dynasty

The essential spirit of Legend Fiction is fabricating, that is, the author makes up a story consciously to express some kinds of emotions and ideals. But as well as fabricating, legend fiction of Song dynasty still remains faithful recording as a narrative style, which is reflected through the title, beginning, ending and language style. As for the reason, on one hand, in the light of the historical biography, legend fiction of Song dynasty develops the narrative style of faithful recording. On the other hand, in Song dynasty, classical fictions were generally regarded as dependencies of historical books, and thus they were expected to be faithful as the historical books. The faithful recording of legend fiction of Song dynasty reflects both the law of classical fiction development and the literary concept of Song dynasty.